This is a free Android app that serves as a black box for a car.
I’ve got an iPhone 3G (yes that’s a really old one, and it is really slow as well!). Maybe that’s the main reason that I don’t use apps very often nowadays, except for some built-in apps and a Dutch news app. But there are some wonderful apps on my phone. When I was scanning trough my phone in search for…
As the fever of Geolocation apps continues, Waze seems to stand out with integration in different media and personal communication among their users.
Waze is a GPS application available for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Mobile that blended geolocation with crowdsourcing. Waze is a GPS system that uses people’s input to create the maps. With…
Layla van Daalen, Chris Hoogeveen, Hanneke Mertens
Every aspect of the world has an extra layer of information. It may not always be obvious, but these extra layers are most certainly present. Marc Tuters and Kazys Varnelis describe these extra layers as a form of augmented space. This is an extra layer of information, of data visualization on top of…
“Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of . . . [a] map [is that it] has multiple entryways as opposed to the tracing, which always goes back “to the same.” The map has to do with performance”. (Deleuze and Guattari 1980/1987, 13-14)
According to Crampton “cartography should be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology)” (Crampton, 2009)…
GPS in daily life is mostly used for connecting to the internet and navigating through an area. The focus of these types of GPS is giving you a precise location or finding a precise location. What would happen if GPS was used for different purposes?
The application TXXI for the iPhone, launched this year in the Netherlands, hopes…
[...] I wonder, therefore, is there any other way we can look into the function of locative media, other than retrieving geo information, playing GPS treasure hunting game (geocaching), or babbling where we have been to? Can we (as prosumers) actually apply locative media to other meaning when we suspect its accountability and ethics?
On Tuesday October 6th, in the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst in Amsterdam, there was an interesting and envisioning lecture and performance by Amsterdam visual artist Esther Polak (http://realtime.waag.org/). Her main interest in the field of locative media is to trace the actions of the subject in the world, to create new visualizations of these…