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Locative media. Presentatie Masters of Media 14 september 2006 Esther Weltevrede & Jasper Moes. Locative Media. Scholar: 85 hits Google: 251.000 hits. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Locative media Presentatie Masters of Media 14 september 2006 Esther Weltevrede & Jasper Moes
Locative Media • Scholar: 85 hits • Google: 251.000 hits
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Locative Media are media of communication bound to a location. They are digital media applied to real places and thus triggering real social interactions. While mobile technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), laptop computers and mobile phones enable locative media, they are not the goal for the development of projects in this field.
Locative Media & Waag Society • Psychogeography • Sociale structuren • Tijd & Geschiedenis • Gaming • Instrumenten, apparaten, interfaces & technologie • Frequency 1550
Locative Media • Location based awareness tools • Refers to every information about the physical location as well as other contextual cues • Mixed Reality/Augmented Reality • Geospacialweb • Bron: Nova, Nicholas. “Locative Media: A Literature Review”. 2004.
Locative Media • “Cell phones become internet enabled • And location aware” • “Everything in the real world becomes: • Tracked • Tagged • Barcoded • Mapped” Quotes van Ben Russel in: Tuters, Mark, Kazys Varnelis. “Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things”. In Leonardo, vol 39, no 4, 2006, p.357-363.
Two types of mapping • Annotative (spacial annotation) • Virtually tagging the world • Phenomenological • Tracing the action of the subject (Finding & Tracking) in the world Tuters, Mark, Kazys Varnelis. “Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things”. In Leonardo, vol 39, no 4, 2006, p.357-363.
Discussion: Tuters, Mark, Kazys Varnelis. “Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things”. In Leonardo, vol 39, no 4, 2006, p.357-363. • Broekman: • locative media practicioners: • “avant-garde of the Society of Control” • Fundamentally based on the appropriation of technologies of surveillance and control, it’s practitioners have a duty to address that fact in their work • Lovink: • the movement has turned the media art conference circuit into a “shopping-driven locative spectacle”