"Petra Gemeinboeck. 2005. Impossible geographies of belonging. In Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '05). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 567-570. DOI=10.1145/1101149.1101279 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101279" The paper discusses the boundary between virtual and physical spaces as it is constituted and perforated in a series of installation works by the author. It focuses on the recently completed interactive installation, Impossible Geographies 01: Memory, in which the memory of a space becomes the metaphoric articulation of a virtual seepage into the physical present. Impossible Geographies 02: Urban Fiction, currently being developed, will expand the underlying idea of computated negotiations of geographies and will embed these evolving dialogues in the urban fabric. The series aims to move the contact surface of the virtual further into the physical and to investigate issues of belonging and unbelonging to a space that is naturally inhabited by the participants.

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