Wednesday, 10 February 2010

IDAT210 - Locative media research

Just found quite a cool website called Locative Media, pretty handy title for something about locative media!

Here's the address, http://www.locative-media.org/

"What happens when people experience narratives and media in place? What happens when media is contextualized with location? When history, personal narrative, and place are interwoven?

The Center for Locative Media works with different cultural and educational communities to enable the creation, delivery, and distribution of narrative histories of people and places using emerging and locative technologies.

To date, the Locative Media space has primarily been inhabited by artists. But as educators and amateur neo-geographers, we found a rich vein of place-based pedagogy to tap into. Here story was already married to place. As technologists we watched the tools become available to not only tag content to place, but to experience it in that place.

Locative Media, like its technology, is emerging; but as with all community engagement, it has its roots in the the importance of story, the value of place, and the use of technologies old and new."

This website seems to pretty useful, it has tons of different examples of locative media work. Thought i would post a couple of them below,

http://locative.x-i.net/

http://www.locative-media.org/projects/C89/

This website also has an interesting link to the following article about the history of locative media.

http://www.hz-journal.org/n8/hight.html

It also has another couple decent links, one that is about the tech that is around at the moment.

http://www.locative-media.org/tech/

and the other is about mobile technology and the use of mobile tech.

http://www.locative-media.org/mobile/C95/