February 15

Locative Media

This week we will examine how the internet has expanded beyond the desktop into portable media and how the introduction of GPS, RF Tags, Geocaching, Geotagging and on-line applications such as Google Earth has been taken up by artists and activists.

 

ARTICLE

"Locative Media as Socialising and Spatialising Practices: Learning from Archeology" by Anne Galloway and Wathew Ward

 

LOCATIVE MEDIA PROJECTS LIST

Mobile Art

PixelSumo

we make money not art (LOCATIVE)

 

PRECEDENTS

Live Action Role Playing (LARPS)

Land Art

Boyle Family

Janet Cardiff

Psychogeography

Situationalists

 

GAMES

Can You See Me Now? by Blast Theory

Pacmanhattan

ARQUAKE Project

Space Invaders on GoogleEarth

Message Quests

City Tag

Treasure Hunt (Semacode)

 

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Hello, World!

Murmur

Digital Cities Project

Urban Tapestries/Social Tapestries by Proboscis

Robotic Feral Public Authoring by Proboscis

New York Security Camera Players

Eyes of Laura by Janet Cardiff

TXTual Healing (SMS Enabled Interactive Street Performance)

Tracking Transience

TagTracker

Life: A User's Manual

P2P by Gorbet Design

New York City Map

Vectoral Elevation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Paula Levine, 1

Mobile Digital Commons Project

Miniature Long March

 

GPS ART

GPS Drawing Project

The Milk Project

Geocaching

 

STREET ART

Dirty Car Art

Knit Graffiti, 2 , 3

 

TECHNOLOGY

GoogleEarth

Semacode

GeoTagging

Geocoded Photo

Geoblogging

GPS

RFID TAGS (Radio Frequency ID Tags)

MapOMatix: A Collaborative Platform for Tactical Cartography

Antenna Audio (Audio Tours)

Delocator

GarbageScout