Locative Media Grab Bag!
A few intros to sites about Locative Media that I‘ve been collecting on the way; I must admit that as a subject it isn’t grabbing me the same way that some of the other fields in ubiquitous computing are but it's always useful to keep a rounded view!
Geograffiti: Waypoint Sharing Applications: “To demonstrate the concept of waypoint sharing we have been developing a number of waypoint sharing applications for the project we call Geograffiti.”
Locative - workshops: “Welcome to the Locative Network's shared workspace. Here workshop participants can quickly document collaborations.”
PLAN Pervasive and Locative Arts Network: “Wireless and locative technologies are enabling people to break away from traditional computer interfaces. Mobile devices are mediating new kinds of social interaction and responding to physical location and context.”
pixelACHE 2004 - Locative media workshop: “The Locative media workshop held during pixelACHE 2004 Festival is the first event in the series of 6 ‘Trans-Cultural Mapping’ workshops initiated by RIXC Centre for New Media (Riga, Latvia). Each workshop will have a specific focus on outskirts and interregional networking, in the context of an enlarged Europe. Addition goal is to discover specific, deep and relevant layers of the local cultures, involving specific local communities in the process.”
PLAN: On Locative Media's European Reception - MUSE: “I‘m pleased to bring you this, the first installment of my weekly column, exclusively written for the MUSE project, on ’what‘s hot in locative media’. The idea here is for me to provide MUSE's researchers with a brief summary of the state of the art in wireless, location-aware technology, referring the reader to events, projects and sites of interest that I have also catalogued for the site. The most recent event of interest is the PLAN (Pervasive and Locative Arts Network) event at the ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art) in London, England, which I was very fortunate to have been invited to attend.”
GPSter:Locative - Main.Where-Fi: “Where-Fi allows you to turn a landscape of Wi-Fi 802.11 access points into a public location awareness infrastructure. Any Wi-Fi access point, GSM tower or bluetooth beacon can be used to geolocate client applications through a collaborative database of beacon-to-location mappings. Clients can compare Access Point signals recieved to the database to determine their likely location, and clients with GPS devices can upload beacon-to-location mappings to the database.”
TCM Locative Reader: “Most data has a spatial context. Attached to interesting metadata, maps come alive, and become hackable, and hackers build tools to allow all of us to make our own maps; tell our own stories. Maps can be powerful instruments of propaganda.”
And stacks of links here: