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SLU Clock Tower: Macro | Meso | Micro | Meta

“The concept of Trajectory seeks to reflect on the relationship between four elements: mobility, visual data, digital methods and reflexivity, focusing on the use of the mobile phone as a tool to engage with these elements while reflecting on them (336)”

—Edgar Gómez Cruz, “Trajectories”

The goal of this collaborative exercise (for this course) is to sense a location, in this instance the Clock Tower at Saint Louis University, by creating overlapping trajectories (Cruz) at different scales: macro (DJI Mini drones), meso (Osmo Pocket cameras), micro (Skybasic microscopes), and meta (Zoom Proxies).

Macro: three DJI Mini 2 drones operating as “context machines” (Wallace-Wells). The drones are easy to operate, and they require a free smartphone app (iOS or Android). Drone pilot’s will capture a bird’s eye view of the Clock Tower and its location.

Meso: two DJI Osmo Pocket cameras and one DJI Osmo Mobile 2 employed to trace locomotion (Cruz). These are also easy to work with, and they also require a free smartphone app (Osmo Pocket: iOS or Android & Osmo Mobile 2: iOS or Android). Videographers and photographers will sense the various ground level objects and events that constitute the Clock Tower as a location.

Micro: five Skybasic Wifi Digital Microscopes sensing what lies beyond and beneath our human vision. Yep, easy to use and requires a free smartphone app (iOS or Android). Microscopers (it’s a word now) will bring to the surface that which composes the Clock Tower location beyond our everyday vision.

Meta: Zoom Proxies moving (w/ smartphones and tablets) amongst the above actors the various activities for folks on Zoom. Students who are on Zoom will document the activity of students working with the above equipment. This is the “meta” component: they will be watching the watchers, as it were.

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