The essay 'Multifarious Place' by Emma Posey accompanies the exhibition catalogue Autoparts.

Technology is claimed to disrupt a 'sense of place' by altering perceptions of physical 'positions' and thus provoking a 'sense of fragmentation'. However in the essay 'Multifarious Place' Posey proposes that technologies enable the proliferation of places rather than places' destruction. Drawing on the sociological concept the 'Other' she demonstrates how place can be conceived of as multifarious even though place is often assumed to be fixed and singular.

The Other can be usefully employed when analysing the effects of optical and imaging technologies on place which, she argues, foster additional and concurrent places - multifarious place. Furthermore the effect, multifarious place, is used by image makers as a device to implicate the observer in depicted place. Concentrating on the 'Frame', Posey then explores how it can be employed as a device within which additional places are accessed.

Emma Posey is an artist and writer. She is currently course leader of the MA/PgDip Creative Technology at the University of Salford and coordinator of b10c, a forum for art and technology based in Wales (www.bloc.org.uk).