Renate Mihatsch, Austrian architect and artist, has invited me to contribute to the book: Taking From. Leaving In. Moving On.

This is the abstract of my contribution:

The twitter line definition of neo-nomads is that neo-nomads are individuals constantly on the move who construct and reclaim a sense of belonging to places through digital means. One of their strategies to formulate home is sampling. In (electronic) musical terms, sampling is the appropriation—selection and recording—of sound and music bits (often part of a precedent creation by another artist) for reuse in a new musical piece. The musical analogy holds true for neo-nomads as they sample cultures and the urban environments they roam in to reuse in the creation of a comfortable, personal and movable space. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have amplified the phenomenon. This piece is an adaptation of the research on the technologically mediated relation between people and space when always on the move.