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)
Mobile City Conference: Autopsy on Locative Media with Christian Nold
Christian Nold’s talk on Locative Media Autopsy at the 2008 The Mobile City conference dealt primarily with the question what Locative Media really is. Is it just a techno-fetishistic vision of gadget lovers, or should we perhaps take it...
Mobile city conference – Stephen Graham on the politics of urban space
Introduction by Ole Bouman: At the NAI, values of architecture are defended that we are fond of to defend. Most architects and policy makers do belief that architecture is about shelter and enclosure, occupation and representation. Archiving architecture used...
The Mobile City Conference 27 & 28 February 2008 @ NAI, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The Mobile City conference 27 & 28 February 2008 NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands Announcement & Call for Participation www.themobilecity.nl “The Mobile City” is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies, urban culture and identity. The...
LivingLabs recap – what exactly is a creative city?
With every major city in Europe calling itself ‘creative capitol’ these days, the question raises how creative these cities really are and in what way they distinct themselves from others. In a ‘creative race’ between Asia, the US and...
Come out & play 2007
28 & 29 september were two days full of ‘big urban games’. Together with the Picnic festival several games from all over the world were played on the Westergasterrein and other places in the city of Amsterdam. Luckily I...
Kick off! Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07
RFID Hackers Camp kicks off at Westergasfabriek, the PICNIC 07 location. With a group of great hackers, designers and engineers the camp aims to bring together creativity, knowledge, and skills from various fields and disciplines to realize innovative and...
Smart Mobs: smart mob(ile)s or smart Men On Bits?
In this review, Howard Rheingold’s vision on the future of communication and interaction is explained, as layed out in his book ‘Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution’, 2002. Rheingold noted that SMS has been used for dating in teenage...
Come Out and Play Festival
On September the 28th and 29th Amsterdam will be transformed into a huge playground. A wide variety of big urban games will take place in the city……You may choose to take virtual penalties with your cell phone, play Snake...
New Network Theory – Review
For three executive sunny days last week, the humanity studies faculty of the University of Amsterdam hosted the New Network Theory conference. This four party collaborative initiative – consisting of Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network cultures,...
Spamming in the city…
A while ago I found this flyer tied to my bike with a rubber band. First I was astonished, then it made me laugh. I have grown up in a small town in the Netherlands and of course quite...
Event: UPGRADE! AMSTERDAM: [TAG & TRACK}
When: wed. March 21st 2007 || start 20.30 hrs. / doors: 20.00 hrs. Where: Melkweg, Theater, Lijnbaansgracht 234 A, Amsterdam | free entrance | LIVE webcast: www.fabchannel.com www.melkweg.nl/upgrade ‘Locative media’ are hot: from cell phones to GPS, to other...
UvA New Media Research Lectures
We are pleased to announce: “Mobile Affect, Mediality and Abu Ghraib” Richard Grusin Thursday, 22 February 15-17u. Turfdraagsterpad 9, Room 0.04
More Local Web
Amsterdam is using a Google map mashup to display complaints they’re dealing with. Imagine, those two neighbors who hate each other, constantly using this mashup to get even.. Speaking of, what does the local web mean for that old...
The local Web, continued
Placeblogger brings together blogs based on their location. Personally, I really am looking forward to aggregators like this one taking off. Maybe they will change how we perceive the blogosphere (i.e. beyond terms of A-list bloggers and the Long...
Damn Small Linux – Linux on a USB stick
This article (that is in Dutch) explains how you can turn your own USB stick into a linux mini desktop. It has a step by step plan to place a small programme, called DSL on your USB stick, so...
Smart Clothes: the hug shirt
The Hug Shirt has been nominated as one of the best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine! How does it work? The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned...
Artists Give Community Something To Talk About
Rhizome | Rhizome News Email Rhizome News December 22, 2006 Artists Give Community Something To Talk About The People Speak is a London-based collection utilizing and ‘updating’ various communication techniques to facilitate exchange among residents of the city. They...
Leading Surveillance societies
And here’s yet another reason why we should all move to Belgium…. or consider moving to Germany! I wanted to show this chart yesterday in class, during our discussion of Philip Agre’s article “Surveillance and capture: Two models of...
Bio Mapping
Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this...
The Simpsons understand
“If only we’d known that iPods would unite and overthrow the very humans they entertained…” From The Plastic Bag
interesting locative media websites
I have found a couple of interesting locative media websites/ articles/ blogs: These involve geotracing: http://www.geotracing.com/ http://beta.plazes.com/locate/mobile.php http://www.n8spel.nl/ Location based mobile phone games (pervasive gaming): http://www.in-duce.net/archives/locationbased_mobile_phone_games.php#more http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ http://www.pervasive-gaming.org/index_swf.html Article about botfighters, a mobile (location based) multi user game (/pervasive...
Cell Phone Culture
Recommended: Gerard Goggin. Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.