Locative media
From Institute of Intermedia
Locative media
Lokativní média jsou komunikační média vázaná na konkrétní prostor. Fyzická realizace/umístění tohoto média však není/nemusí být na stejném místě, na které odkazuje svým obsahem. Jedná se o digitální média použitá na reálných místech/lokacích, spouštějící reálné sociální interakce.
Termín lokativní média úzce souvisí s augmented reality a ubiquitous computing Zatímco augmented reality se zabývá spíše snahou o dokonalé technické řešení augmentované reality a pervasive/ubiquitous computing řeší otázky všudypřítomnosti výpočetní techniky, lokativní média se soustředí na sociální interakci s místem zaměření.
Článek o kauze iPhone trackingu
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears
"http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf"
tagged/inter-connected with
různé definice
Locative media: sounds, texts and images, either moving or still, from real physical places, physically unbound to their original locations.
Site specific artwork is art that is either created and/or exhibited in a location relevant to the subject matter of the work itself.
Locative media is about location place, eventually unbound by physical presence.
http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n03-04/gallowayward.html
site specific art - art for public space. street art
http://www.locusplus.org.uk/index2.html
esej o historii fenomenu
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/90m1k8tb;jsessionid=0857BFB372458BC0044ABB91EBBEA45E#page-1
http://www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/
http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/architecture/research/cast.asp
theory
Sentience versus Sapience
the builders of technology construct the aparata according our/their time based determinated concepts of Mind and Body
Sentience is the ability to feel, or perceive, or be conscious, or have subjective experiences. 18th century philosophers used the term to distinguish the ability to think ("reason") from the ability to feel ("sentience"). In modern western philosophy, sentience is the ability to have sensations or experiences with a subjective quality known as "qualia". For Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The term is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience implies the ability to suffer, which entails certain rights. In science fiction, a non-human character described as "sentient" will typically have similar abilities, qualities and rights to a human being.
Gilbert_Ryle The Concept of Mind - post-Cartesian thoughts -
Enlightement definition of Mind Body relationship only human can think, animals are just machines with no passion and feelings, clockwork
Terms
- Mapping, cartography
Is a map a database, or a work of art? As we start getting into aggregate layers of cartographic information, it is both. The map is a representation of the underlying spatial abstraction; and selective representation is core to the art of cartography.
- smart
-technologies
-architecture
-dress
- hyper-linked information
- database and metadata
- mashup - linking of two or more technologies, ex. google earth and flikr photo albums to display photos that have been encoded with GPS metadata on specific locations of maps.
check out this simple 'not an artwork' mashup of flikr and google earth:
This political work mashes up locations of secret prisons in Tunisia and the political prisoner's being held own stories on video:
http://nawaat.org/tunisianprisonersmap/
Technology:
- RFID or radio frequency identification tags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
- GPS or Global Positioning System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
Waypoint File Formats
KML - Although originally used for Google Earth (formerly Keyhole - KML stands for Keyhole Modeling Language), KML is increasingly being used to read and display map data. Geocaching.com uses this format to view caches and to view the movements of trackable items.
- Google Earth (GPX/KML) - Google Earth can overlay the travels of trackable items on geocaching.com. Google Earth also uses GPS Babel to allow Premium Members the ability to drag a Pocket Query GPX file on to the application to overlay geocaches.
http://www.metacarta.com for advanced mapping tools
artists
Ben Russell
Head Map Manifesto, 1999 [[2]]intro;russell [3]
"new world":
location aware, networked, mobile devices make possible invisible notes attached to spaces, places, people and things.
computer games move outside and get subversive.
Sex and even love are easier to find.
Real space can be marked and demarcated invisibly.
what was once the sole preserve of builders, architects and engineers falls into the hands of everyone: the ability to shape and organise the real world and the real space.
Real borders, boundaries and space become plastic and maleable [sic], statehood becomes fragmented and global.
Geography gets interesting.
Cell phones become internet enabled and location aware, everything in the real world gets tracked, tagged, barcoded and mapped.
Overlaying everything is a whole new invisible layer of annotation.
Textual, visual and audible information is available as you get close, as context dictates, or when you ask.
internet of things
Barcode, RFID.. pachube Web 2.0.
Mobile web
The Internet of Things is a network of Internet-enabled objects, together with web services that interact with these objects. Underlying the Internet of Things are technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification), sensors, and smartphones. ....
criticism of lecative media.. too much related to producers of communication technology and providers of networks..
geohackers, locative media artists, and psychogeographers as the key players in constructing the "geospatial web," in which the web becomes tagged with geospatial information, a development that he sees as having "enormous unharvested business opportunities."
Anthony Townsend, "The IFF's]forecast for the next decade is that this context-aware computing will emerge as the third great wave of modern digital technology..
Art---?
Denis Beabois
http://denisbeaubois.com/In%20the%20event%20of%20Amnesia.html
Francis Alys
Magnetic Shoes - Havana, Cuba
7 walks - London
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Ester Polak
MILK
Jo Walsh London/San Francisco programmer. Among her employers have been a Dutch ISP and the website of the Guardian. She is also an acclaimed software critic whose opinions are eagerly anticipated on several important mailing-lists. During the workshop she will talk about her work on community software in relation to the semantic web
[9]space.frot.org
Mappinghacks
Social Ficton Utrecht [11]
Mark Sheppard
http://cast.ap.buffalo.edu/site/ http://www.tacticalsoundgarden.net/
Institute for the Future [17]
(IAA) was founded in 1998 as a technological research and development organization dedicated to the cause of individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists.
from Future Cinema show at ZKM Thomas Fürstner / Peter Weibel :: WAYPOINTING WEIBEL'S VIENNA, 2002
With the installation Waypointing Weibel's Vienna, Thomas Fürstner and Peter Weibel create the vision of mobile cinematographic communication. The visitor of the exhibition takes the position of a walker, strolling through Vienna. Their tour follows the important movements and junctions in the biography of Peter Weibel. The walker bears a portable communication-device that combines several functions. The »digital street device« integrates telephone, computer, panoramic-camera and a global positioning system [GPS]. Via the GPS, a localization-system supported by satellite, the walker receives historic information about the place he is standing in at the moment. The information appears as moving and still archive-images on his small monitor-display. The visitor sees the panoramic-images and historic information from the perspective of the promenador on a big screen in the exhibition space. The installation refers to the current development of the communication and entertainment industry: »the convergence of the media«, meaning the integration of all kinds of information-storage and transfer to a device. These personal experience-devices in 2003 will perhaps be used by more than 55 miollion Europeans. With this work, Tom Fürstner and Peter Weibel bring to mind the aesthetic and functional possibilities of new technologies.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ wiki map
http://googlemapsart.wordpress.com/ googlemaps as art www
http://www.streetwithaview.com/index.html street view in collaboration w/google and local neighbourhood
http://www.suwud.com/googorama/ images grabbed from google street view
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2007/01/on_space_art_in_sebas/ in collaboration w/google maps
http://ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/node/39 using 3d maps for objects
http://production.eyebeam.org/tools/maya2google/ re-importing them back into Google Earth
http://10.futuresonic.com/urban_play/off_the_map_projects/
many locative media pieces: http://www.paris.emotionmap.net/map.htm
urban tapestries and feralrobots
soundmap:
http://www.manchesterperipheral.com/ http://www.manchesterperipheral.com/phase1/soundmap/
poor examples of locative media:
http://www.biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx
lots of money spent to send a package around the world via courier with a GPS RFID tag inside so its locations as it travels, draws a picture.
shadowsfromanotherplace.net/
over technologized critique of the USA/Iraq war. Does not Martha Rosler in her early 1970's photomontage work "Bringing The War Home" not say the same thing but more effectively?
heath bunting
http://www.irational.org/borderxing
what pretends to be a locative media work highlighting the 'underground crossing points in Europe for illegal immigrants' actually shows the givernment all these points, allowing them to be further policed and closed.
Some excellent Prague based Locative Media works:
Milos Vojtechovsky's http://www.panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/
Vladimir Turner's UFF game http://www.uff-game.net/
