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Gabcast! Locative Media #0




Gabcast! Locative Media #0




Gabcast! Locative Media #0




Gabcast! Locative Media #0




Gabcast! Locative Media #0

Pigeon Project

from: http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/colloquium/BeatrizDaCosta

"Beatriz da Costa will present her current PigeonBlog project, an initiative which uses homing pigeons as allies for real-time air pollution data gathering. The pigeons are equipped with small gps/gsm communication devices in addition to a carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides sensor unit. During flight time, pollution data will be sent in real time to an online mapping and blogging environment. Da Costa is currently developing the pigeon “backpack” devices together with her graduate students Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto. The project will be launched at ISEA 2006 in San Jose.

In addition, da Costa will also present her collaborative work with the Preemptive Media, a group of artists, activists and technologists who are making their own style of beta tests, trial runs and impact assessments based on independent research. Preemptive Media’s work includes public workshops, performances and tool development

Projects by Preemptive Media include Swipe, a three-part project (performance, installation and toolkit) that reveals to people what information is encoded on a U.S. driver's license and attempts to prevent the hemorrhaging of personal data without consent or notification. Swipe illustrates how personal information is used and why businesses and government crave it.

And Zapped!, a recent project initiative which takes a close look at Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. Zapped! interrogates the current push toward RFID, encourages public discussion and develops models for creative feedback. Preemptive Media has developed a set of tools that allow for alerting of RFID readers installed in public and commercial environments (through mobile devices emitting light and sound) as well as “jamming” of existing RFID systems.

This presentation will specifically address the notion of grassroots scientific data gathering and the pursuit of such a practice within an academic research environment. What role can artists play in negotiating the relationship between high-end academic research and public knowledge dissemination? How can a non-expert public participate in policy-making procedures regarding the uses and releases of new technology applications as well as standards and releases of environmental toxins and health hazardous materials? How can these forms of counter-surveillance and awareness raising go beyond a mere symbolic gesture?"

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Gabcast! Locative Media #0

View From the Balcony

This is a project by Hana Iverson that uses the Eldridge Street Synagogue to display various images, video, and audio within an empty shaft of the building. The main concept behind it mainly focuses on the idea of bringing back the ties to Eastern Europe and the Jewish culture which have been lost over the years.
This concept is also represented as a metaphor. The presentation of the video and audio is seen through the balcony of the edifice. It is here that women were normally seated and separated from the men in the sanctuary. From this comes the idea of sewing to mend something. Sewing has a traditional connotation to the female role where it can be seen that viewing these images from the balcony "mends" the gap in Jewish culture.
Many of the clips were taken from stories and events that were inspired by the synagogue. While fixed in this one place, many of these stories come from different parts of the world. Mapping the different places that these stories come from not
only closes the gap in the cultural aspect but it closes the spacial gap in creating unified web that branches out from one fixated point to other points. Thus, this slightly relates to the concept of "the internet of things".

Locative Media

A Few Definitions

I came across a few terms that I think should be noted and a elaborated on. I figured it would be a good idea to post them on here to refer back to them.

In regards to locative media, the term was originally coined by a man named Karlis Kalnins. This concept in an essence the idea applying media and location together. Obviously. However, the artform does bring forth more than just throwing GPS devices at a person and having them walk around.

The term augmented reality becomes closely related to this topic. Augmented reality is reality overlaid with virtual reality. The combination of the real world with computer generated data brings forth another term, ubiquitous computing.

Rather than having the computers sit as an object, the concept of Ubiqutious Computing (ubicomp) incorporates computation into the environment. This is sometimes called, pervasive computing, calm technology, thinkgs that think, and everyware (cleaver eh?).

It is from this that the artist evokes the world and any outside environment into a canvas.