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Resistant Maps

Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory. Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum, via Jacopo Ruffini 3, Genoa (Italy) 25-26 November 2006 Resistant Maps, artistic actions in the interconnected urban territory is a conference and exhibition produced by...
By Jan Simons on 11/24/06 Comments Off on Resistant Maps

Mark Poster- “Digitally Local Communications: technologies and space”

Mark Poster is a professor of history at the History department of the University of California. His special academic interests are: European Intellectual and Cultural History; Critical Theory; Media Studies. Last year we have read one of his articles...
By Heleen on 11/18/06 Comments Off on Mark Poster- “Digitally Local Communications: technologies and space”

Some additional literature on locative media

TCM reader ‘Locative’ Leonardo, Vol. 39, no. 4, 2006: ‘Urbanity and Locative Media’ Fibreculture Journal 2005 Issue 6: ‘Mobility, New Social Intensities and the Coordinates of Digital Networks’ Drew Hemment. ‘Locative Arts’, in Leonardo Vol. 39, No. 4, pp....
By Jan Simons on 11/09/06 Comments Off on Some additional literature on locative media

Ask the masters: Top down = control & bottom-up = action?

Anthony Townsend argues in his essay ‘Locative-Media Artists in the Contested-Aware City‘ that the technology of context-aware computing (of which locative media is a part): will be characterized by an interplay between top-down systems for command and control and...
By Anne Helmond on 11/01/06 1

Ask-the-Masters: Going Locative?

Locative media is about as vague a term as web 2.0. Essentially, locative seems to be about connecting ‘third nature’ information to real world places and/or objects. But there are a number of ways this can happen. Below I...
By Michael Stevenson on 10/29/06 6