Antunes, R.F. (2026) ‘Expanded Walking: interdisciplinary artistic practices in technologically mediated public space’, Artnodes, 39. https://doi.org/10.7238/artnodes.v0i39.980000013657.


Antunes conceptualises Expanded Walking as an interdisciplinary artistic form that integrates movement, narrative, sound and locative or augmented-reality technologies to generate embodied knowledge in public space. The work’s theoretical contribution lies in linking post-medium practice, phenomenology and infrastructural mediation while refusing to treat walking as belonging to a single artistic genre. Methodologically, Antunes analyses a curated dataset of more than one hundred walking-based artworks, identifying a spectrum from solitary action to communal participation and from analogue encounter to technologically augmented experience. The wider bridge is to media archaeology and urban theory: public space appears as a layered environment shaped by historical traces, sensory intensities and sociotechnical infrastructures. Expanded Walking therefore offers a model for scalar research in which bodily movement can connect immediate perception with larger technological and political systems.