Locative Media http://www.locative-media.org Check here for up-to-date postings on things we find interesting in locative media. English leslie.rule@locative-media.org Copyright 2010 2010-02-04T12:52:00Z City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community http://www.locative-media.org/blog/cuty_centered_a_festival_of_locative_media_and_urban_commuity About the festival Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression. From within San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, this festival will celebrate the rich possibilities that art and technology offer for urban communication of place and place-based media. City Centered focuses on the use of locative media and wireless technologies for site-specific and neighborhood-based interventions. Artists, designers, architects, community and cultural … About the festival


Recent exhibitions, festivals and conferences across the US and in Europe have taken wireless networks, public space, locative media and urban environments as sites of intervention, creativity, and critique. Formulated within the emerging context of networked urbanism and mobile media, City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community will focus upon dynamics of the shifting, locative, cartographic and social space of the city. It is organized by educational, arts, community-based and civic organizations and asks how locative media can act as a platform and venue for community-led expression.



From within San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, this festival will celebrate the rich possibilities that art and technology offer for urban communication of place and place-based media. City Centered focuses on the use of locative media and wireless technologies for site-specific and neighborhood-based interventions. Artists, designers, architects, community and cultural …]]> 2010-02-04T12:52:00Z Liminal Time http://www.locative-media.org/blog/liminal_time Twilight serves as a liminal time, between day and night. The name of the television fiction series The Twilight Zone makes reference to this, describing it as “the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition” in one variant of the original series’ opening. The name is from an actual zone observable from space in the place where daylight or shadow advances or retreats about the Earth. Noon and, more often, midnight can be considered liminal, the first transitioning between morning and afternoon, the latter between days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality Locative Media Blogging Twilight serves as a liminal time, between day and night. The name of the television fiction series The Twilight Zone makes reference to this, describing it as “the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition” in one variant of the original series’ opening. The name is from an actual zone observable from space in the place where daylight or shadow advances or retreats about the Earth. Noon and, more often, midnight can be considered liminal, the first transitioning between morning and afternoon, the latter between days.
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]]> 2009-02-04T22:45:00Z Washington DC: Locating African American Freedom and Culture http://www.locative-media.org/blog/washington_dc_locating_african_american_freedom_and_culture We invite you to take a “geo” journey with us around Washington, D.C., a city built in no small part by slaves. We look at the deep roots of freedom and culture and the contradictions amidst this great American city. This is one project among many produced at National Black Programming Consortium’s New Media Institute ‘08. It is best to experience this project by selecting the “View Larger Map” link. View Larger Map We invite you to take a “geo” journey with us around Washington, D.C., a city built in no small part by slaves. We look at the deep roots of freedom and culture and the contradictions amidst this great American city. This is one project among many produced at National Black Programming Consortium’s New Media Institute ‘08.

It is best to experience this project by selecting the “View Larger Map” link.


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]]> 2008-11-21T04:24:00Z Locative filmmaking with a cellphone http://www.locative-media.org/blog/locative_filmmaking_with_a_cellphone Found art always has one foot in locative media in that it is linked to place and that link is not arbitrary. Why a piece of found art is here instead of there asks us to look deeply into and around the space we’re inhabiting. in turn, this connects us more closely to that space. This film by Jason van Genderen could be called “found typography,” and was shot on location entirely on a cellphone using the internal phone video camera. This film won first prize at Tropfest in New York. Found art always has one foot in locative media in that it is linked to place and that link is not arbitrary. Why a piece of found art is here instead of there asks us to look deeply into and around the space we’re inhabiting. in turn, this connects us more closely to that space. This film by Jason van Genderen could be called “found typography,” and was shot on location entirely on a cellphone using the internal phone video camera. This film won first prize at Tropfest in New York.

]]> 2008-11-01T14:55:00Z Dislocate http://www.locative-media.org/blog/dislocate Sounds like a great conference. Full of locative media and augmented reality artists creating projects in and through Tokyo. DISLOCATE 08 Dislocate is a project which examines the relationship between art, technology and locality. Designed to facilitate international dialogue between artists, researchers and the public. Dislocate encourages exchange and reflection upon our experiences and perceptions of the interplay between these elements. Dislocate questions our notions of place and location in the face of perpetual motion through multifaceted environments. The velocity of this passage is accelerated through new technologies, but as a result how does this impact upon our encounter with place and our attempt to communicate this to elsewhere?

Sounds like a great conference. Full of locative media and augmented reality artists creating projects in and through Tokyo.

DISLOCATE 08
Dislocate is a project which examines the relationship between art, technology and locality. Designed to facilitate international dialogue between artists, researchers and the public. Dislocate encourages exchange and reflection upon our experiences and perceptions of the interplay between these elements.

Dislocate questions our notions of place and location in the face of perpetual motion through multifaceted environments. The velocity of this passage is accelerated through new technologies, but as a result how does this impact upon our encounter with place and our attempt to communicate this to elsewhere?

]]> 2008-10-30T03:40:00Z Golden Age of Cartography http://www.locative-media.org/blog/golden_age_of_cartography A blog post on axismaps’ website has brought to the fore the place that cartography holds in the world of mapping. Of the ideas articulated, the ones I found most valuable for my practice were: “pocketcasting” and the simplier geo-moblogging.  Following the trend of many fields, most geo-apps assume a regal and righteous Do-It_Yourself (DIY) mentality; there is no clear demarcation between those that make the maps and those that use the maps. Sites like geocommons and www.openstreetmap.org have open data and as a “commons,” assumes that those that use publicly sourced data will also be those that contribute to it.

A blog post on axismaps’ website has brought to the fore the place that cartography holds in the world of mapping. Of the ideas articulated, the ones I found most valuable for my practice were: “pocketcasting” and the simplier geo-moblogging.  Following the trend of many fields, most geo-apps assume a regal and righteous Do-It_Yourself (DIY) mentality; there is no clear demarcation between those that make the maps and those that use the maps.

Sites like geocommons and www.openstreetmap.org have open data and as a “commons,” assumes that those that use publicly sourced data will also be those that contribute to it.

]]> 2008-10-29T13:22:00Z Characteristics of Place-based Learning, Pt 1 http://www.locative-media.org/mobile/characteristics_of_place_based_learning_pt_1 Induction into Community Processes Place-based education draws students into both the economic life of their community but into its decision-making processes. Why can’t schools turn leaning into a authentic learning experience who outcomes address important community needs. How about a school week that is scheduled so that Tuesdays and Thursdays have students working in the community or in the field, with mobile devices in their back pockets. These devices are able to record data, send and receive information, they allow collective work and enable participation. So, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays these devices head back into any anything but typical classroom. Once student learn about their own watershed, they can then investigate rivers in other parts of the United States and the rest of the world. While students observe and test, they also contribute hands-on work to restore riparian areas by pulling invasive species, such as Siberian … Place-based Pedagogy Induction into Community Processes

Place-based education draws students into both the economic life of their community but into its decision-making processes. Why can’t schools turn leaning into a authentic learning experience who outcomes address important community needs.

How about a school week that is scheduled so that Tuesdays and Thursdays have students working in the community or in the field, with mobile devices in their back pockets. These devices are able to record data, send and receive information, they allow collective work and enable participation. So, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays these devices head back into any anything but typical classroom. Once student learn about their own watershed, they can then investigate rivers in other parts of the United States and the rest of the world. While students observe and test, they also contribute hands-on work to restore riparian areas by pulling invasive species, such as Siberian …]]> 2008-10-06T04:47:00Z Locative Media: Place Runs Deep http://www.locative-media.org/blog/locative_media_place_runs_deep Note: Reposted from IdeaLab, where I blog on Locative Media as a Knight News Challenge grantee. What is it about place that runs so deep and holds so tight? Take a minute to think about one of your treasured places. And yes, you should probably close your eyes. Jeremy Hight one the first locative media theorists, coined the term, “Narrative Archeology,” a concept which became a corner stone of locative media. It refers to the process of peeling back layers of a place, and finding the stories underneath. Sometimes, it’s all about history, sometimes it’s about culture. His recent writings have addressed the limiting notion that “locative” and location refer to definable points, usually described with co-ordinal terms longitude and latitude. Jeremy asks why not include elevation, topography, other geographical data. Indeed, why not? On the street level, … Note: Reposted from IdeaLab, where I blog on Locative Media as a Knight News Challenge grantee.

What is it about place that runs so deep and holds so tight? Take a minute to think about one of your treasured places. And yes, you should probably close your eyes.

Jeremy Hight one the first locative media theorists, coined the term, “Narrative Archeology,” a concept which became a corner stone of locative media. It refers to the process of peeling back layers of a place, and finding the stories underneath. Sometimes, it’s all about history, sometimes it’s about culture. His recent writings have addressed the limiting notion that “locative” and location refer to definable points, usually described with co-ordinal terms longitude and latitude. Jeremy asks why not include elevation, topography, other geographical data. Indeed, why not? On the street level, …]]> 2008-07-13T18:16:00Z