What do you think when you hear the word, “hike?” I’d imagine lots of sky and green things that may or may not be filled with crawling critters are in your mental picture. Certainly not sidewalks. Which is odd; why not hike on sidewalks? Matt Green hosted 20 mile walks across the city once upon a time. Shouldn’t they count as “hikes?”

It’s a tough call. Enter ecoarttech. This interdisciplinary collective will be presenting A Series of Indeterminate Hikes at the 2010 Conflux Festival this October. Think of it as a hiking guide for the urban explorer. What might be tougher is reframing what for most of us is a quotidian urban environment-something that’s just there while we’re en route to someplace else-and following the guides’ advice to “stop for a minimum of five minutes or thirty meditative breaths.”