I Move, Therefore, I Am

Abstract

Together with the artwork titled ‘No Man’s Land’ that was exhibited in the ANTARA exhibition, this paper presents an understanding of properties and attributes of presence and how they manifest through locative media. Building on the ideology of existentialism, the author equates the performativity of locative media with the intentionality to move. The work maps out the multiple ontologies of presence and space conditioned to locative technology usage. The author concludes by highlighting a new mode of existential location consciousness and reflecting upon the potential of this perception for future research in this area.