January 02, 2006
Locative Networking
Non-Authoritarian Experiences
"...Arguably, locative media can offer an opportunity for the public, participatory and site-specific art of the last century to reinvent itself in the twenty-first and complete its project of critical revision. Mobile, location-sensitive devices, semantic mapping and biometrics are all locative and wearable tools that are being deployed in non-authoritarian ways on the street and in the body. Even the critics would agree that locative media art at its best enhances locative literacy and augments the ambiance of the physical places. It carries the ability to intervene on local level whether by creating an on-site experience about the place, transporting us to another site or choosing to abstract us from the location.
Using audio systems and GPS receivers both 1831 Riot!, an interactive play about Bristol Riots of 1831, and My Lodging and Some Others, a bus tour operated by international artists group e-Xplo around spooky, nocturnal Berlin, are pursuing similar artistic ends. Perhaps, locative networking will be the next quiet leap in driving wireless technology forward to reawaken our sense of geography, to annotate public space and challenge the ownership of the imperceptible electromagnetic zone around us." From Locative Networking by Iliyana Nedkova. [via pasta and vinegar]
Posted by jo at January 2, 2006 04:46 PM
