Locative Media

Work and research focused on locative media.

•TO Psychogeography Society
http://www.psychogeography.ca/


•GLOWLAB PRESENTS THE THIRD ANNUAL CONFLUX FESTIVAL FOR CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, THE INVESTIGATION OF EVERYDAY URBAN LIFE THROUGH EMERGING ARTISTIC, TECHNOLOGICAL & SOCIAL PRACTICE.
http://confluxfestival.org/


•Syllabus for Networked Digital Storytelling

Bibliography
More info here: http://www.edu.mah.se/KK3219/syllabus

Gye, Lisa, Anna Munster,
Distributed Aesthetics Fibreculture Publications, 2006.
Ingrid Richardson. (ed)

Lovink, Geert.
Dark Fiber - Tracking Critical Internet Culture. MIT Press 2003.

Manovich, Lev
The Language of New Media. MIT Press 2001.

Miles, Adrian
“Cinematic paradigms for hypertext."
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 13.2 July (1999): 17-226.

Murray, Janet
Hamlet on the Holodeck – The future of Narrative in
Cyberspace. MIT Press 1997.

Renov, Michael.
The Documentary Subject. Minnesota 2004.

Walker, Jill.
"Distributed Narrative: Telling Stories Across Networks". Paper, AoIR 5.0, September 2004.

"Mirrors and Shadows: The Digital Aestheticisation of Oneself". DAC 2005 Proceedings. 184-190.

Youngblood, Gene.
Expanded Cinema. Dutton NY 1970.

Zapp, Andrea; Druckrey Timothy,
New Screen Media , Cinema, Art Narrative, BFI 2003. Sean Cubitt (Red.).

Hardcover)
by Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld


• Locative Media Readings/Resources Galore!

Lots of important resources/annoucements have surfaced in the past few days...enjoy!

Leonardo Electronic Almanac on Locative Media Special
http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n03-04/intro.asp

w/ bibliography
http://leoalmanac.org/resources/biblio/locativemedia.asp

IFTF report about context-aware gaming
http://www.iftf.org/docs/SR_997_Context_Aware_Gaming_ExecSum.pdf

Location Based Mobile Media: Maps, Games & Stories (taught by Julian Bleecker)
A good syllabus with bibliography
http://research.techkwondo.com/files/CTIN499_AdvancedMobileMedia_Fall05.pdf

The4thScreen: a global fest of art & innovation for mobile phones
http://the4thscreen.net/

Experimental Media Arts (pdf)
http://xmeda.be/xmeda.screen.pdf





• New locative project from the University of Michigan - Blue Puddle

Blue Puddle (http://www.bluepuddle.org/), developed by U of Michigan students coming from across a variety of disciplines, is a software that exploits the collective authorship capabilities of the Internet to allows for interactive online mapping based on contributor’s experiential sense of cities. According to the site, “these maps foster the emergence of stories about the city that are more rich than any single author could create�?.




• Palpable City

Palpable City, created by Erik Conrad, is a “location aware garment�? that, when worn, allows its wearer to become aware of the city’s spatial form through vibrations. Information such as time, light, temperature, and humidity are computed through a GPS device and relayed to the wearer tactilely. For more on this project, visit http://www.peripheralfocus.net/palpocil_mtl.html




• Umbrella uses Wi-Fi technology to Retrieve Forecast Predictions

Gizmodo describes a new gadget, a Forecast Predicting Umbrella. Its handle glows with greater degrees of intensity as the likelihood of rain increases. This is of interest because it uses wifi to retrieve the weather information.




• Locative Media as Socialising and Spatialising Practices: Learning from Archaeology (DRAFT)

Galloway, Anne and Matthew Ward. 2005. “Locative Media as Socialising and Spatialising Practices: Learning from Archaeology (DRAFT)�?. Forthcoming Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press. Available online

This paper explores how both pervasive computing and locative media are becoming technologies and processes that increasingly reshape and reformulate how people understand and experience space and culture. It poses some questions of this impact, for example on locative media representations of urban mobilities, and investigates, through the lens of archaeology, the issues that surround the mapping of people and things in time and space. The article deals with authorship and ownership and its significance to locative media, concluding with several suggested questions to be considered in future research and design in the field of locative media.



• The Headmap Manifesto

"a sequence of text fragments dealing with the social and cultural implications of location aware devices."

On-line: http://www.headmap.org/headmap.pdf


• The Transcultural Media Reader

List of Articles


• Locative Literacy - Albert, Saul

http://www.metamute.org/en/Locative-Literacy

• ''Locative Feminism' - Hedditch, Emma
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http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=1522&ALStart=5

• Locative Media: A Literature Review - Hedditch, Emma

CRAFT Research Report 2
February 2004
http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/MT/research/archives/CRAFT_report2.pdf

• The Shape of Locative Media - Pope, Simon

http://www.metamute.org/en/The-Shape-of-Locative-Media

• Locative Media Concepts

This text identifies core concpets in locative media and provides a brief explanation for each. A short yet illuminating intorductory piece.

• Marc Tuters

Marc Tuters’ personal blog as well as some of his projects available for file transfer provide a good source for lectures on locative media, tracking technologies, and other projects, as well as mobile and locative art applications.

• John Thackara

See also John Thackara’s book In The Bubble, in particular chapter three on mobility. For general information about his book, visit his site.



• Beyond Locative Media

I came across this article and it provides a pretty comprehensive history (i didn't know that locative media came about as a response to the net art movement!), along with criticism towards locative media as an art form.

One of the major criticisms on locative media art is its reliance on GPS technology, and some critics feel this technological dimension only serves to perputate imperialistic ideology. Brian Holmes has been vocal about this, particulatly in this essay (in which Varnelis and Tuters are made reference to).



• LocaLocative Discussion

This is a Multi-disciplinary focus discussion on locative media that includes participants such as Anne Galloway, Simon Pope, and Elizabeth Goodman. This site also contains links to locative media projects and relevant conferences.




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