ABSTRACT
Digital media walks constitute a new art practice enabled by mobile devices, GPS and digital cartography. This series of digital media walks, collectively named Rhizomes I-III were all realised as a formal partnership between Media Electronique and the Onassis Cultural Centre, of which author Christos Carras is the Executive Director. This kind of composition might conceivably characterise a self-organised community media walk and bring forth a politics of empowerment. Technologies, their use and implications, conceptual framing and its impact on inclusion and representation, aesthetic choices regarding both content and format, and the politics of the relationship between artists, producers, communities, and audiences needed to be articulated each time anew. Affirming the primary significance of community engagement at the outset of a project guides the elaboration of all the above elements in directions that are rich in potential for all participants.
