A multimedia walking tour of New York City, augmented by the use of portable media devices. Sites relevant to the original 'Ghostbusters' compose the tour path, with video content relevant to the film, geography and history of New York comprising the tour. Watching film footage on a portable media device, while standing in the site of its creation some 20 years ago, 'media memories' become real memories and mediated experience becomes actualized.

ghostbustour is an attempt to re-attach ‘media memories’ with our real experience of space and time.

Growing up in a media culture has created fictional recollections within us all that are owned by others (through copyright) and that exist outside of ourselves. Never-experienced depictions mix with our real memories; spaces represented on film and television create the potential for an impossibly distant deja-vu. On a 'ghostbustour' viewers are presented with actual and mediated locations from an archetypal 80's film that created media memories of New York City for an entire generation.

(With Rob O'Neill, Tom Ainslie, Melissa Barrett Lundquist, Lia Bulaong, Mike Horan and Derek Wang.)

ghostbustour was premiered in September 2007 as part of CONFLUX 2007!
A little WMMNA love (thanks Regine!)