Tag Archives: GPS

ElasticMapping: a locative media project

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…

PICNIC 08 – Locative Lab on Education

What: Locative Lab on Education and GPS-based programme 7scenes
Organised by: Waag Society
When: 24 Sept 08 14:00 – 18:00
Where: PICNIC Club (Gashouder)

A Report from Google Geo Day ‘07

Thursday was the day of the Google Geo Day 2007 in Amsterdam. I made a report on it and put it on my personal blog because the layout of the Masters of Media site didn’t want to cooperate! This might be something for you Anne, incompatibility issues within Wordpress! Anyway, you can check out the report here: Google

A member survey on location-based social networks

I herewith include the essay I wrote for New Media Theories, which is about location-based social networking websites. I did a small member survey by interviewing members of sites like Dodgeball, Plazes and Meetro. The many responses I received were surprisingly detailed and are still coming into my mailbox… So if you’re interested: have a look!

 

Essay location-based social networking