Paula Levine is a Canadian-American artist working in media-based technologies. She been a resident at The Banff Centre for the Arts, the Experimental Television Center and received a ZERO1 Fellowship for a project entitled: "On common ground//Empathy as a common good," researching the changing sense of “local” and it’s potential to drive geopolitical intimacy through networked systems.
An early proponent of, and experimenter with GPS, her series, "Shadows from another place" employed locative and mobile technologies to collapse the safety of geographical distance and map the impact of distant events, such as political trauma or upheaval, onto local ground.
Her writings on locative media, new cartography and the expanding cartographic imagination have been presented at conferences at ISEA, ZERO1, MIT and the University of Wisconsin’s Conney conference for Jewish Studies. Her work has shown at ISEA, Interactive Futures, in Vancouver, British Columbia where she was also a keynote speaker. Her writing on “Art & GPS” was published in the Lea E-Journal in a special “Locative Media Curriculum.” Her writing, “On Common Ground: Here as There,” is a chapter in The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies edited by Jason Farman and published by Routledge.
