Years of research and development will come to a hopefully successfull climax on Friday March 14th with the launch of the Hidden Histories project in Southampton. The project is the result of a collaboration between Armin Medosch and the London based technology development group Hive Networks led by artist-engineer Alexei Blinov. By narrowcasting excerpts from Southampton's Oral History Unit on 10 listening stations in the city centre, we have created a new public interface for negotiating the past (and maybe future) of the city.
alternative location for station 10, a bit further down the road; from here the relation with the sea is more obvious, in particular the container port and cruise ship terminal. dropped.
The building on the opposite side of the road stands where a former theatre was located. In the same road is also the tourist office as a further point of reference.
