Re: [-empyre-] locative city, annotated space

["Christophe Bruno" <christophe.bruno@unbehagen.com>]

hi,
Christina kindly suggested that I join the conversation about locative media
For a start, while I read the previous posts and try to catch up, let me
just send you the url of a wi-fi performance I did at the ReJoyce festival
in Dublin
http://www.iterature.com/bloodforsale
You might find some wireless projects here as well but it is in french :
http://www.wifi-art.com
best

Christophe



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim@panix.com>
To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] locative city, annotated space


>
>
> If you can, perhaps some URLs about the state of these things here? The US
> is notorious for its slowness of adaptation; the cost is also relatively
> high.
>
> - Alan
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Naomi Spellman wrote:
>
> > ly around it, etc.
> >>>
> >>> What I believe is necessary, and perhaps you have already worked with
> >>> these, is the kind of tech that's used in museums with wireless now.
But
> >>> then there would have to be a central/distribution point.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to use Wap/sms?
> >
> > Alan:
> > WAP, SMS, micro video, multi-channel sound, WIFI,  are all possible
today
> > for this kind of work, but the phones and service for all these media
> > mobile are possible on few models and not all services. And the US is
> > several years behind asia and europe in both model features and provider
> > services. In the UK one can use tag n'scan for graffitti projects and
maps
> > to create something similar to the kinds of things we are doing, sharing
a
> > map among a group - tag n'scan is a commercial service, and mobile
provide
> > Orange provides the same capability in the UK. botfighters in
scandanavia
> > and mogi in japan are location aware mobile games with sophisticated
> > graphics, which incorporate some of the ideas "locative media"
practioners
> > address but in game format - surely, the one format that will survive!
> >
> > For our work the screen space is helpful for navigational maps and
media.
> > Also processing power, wireless card, stereo audio are important. so as
> > far as end users personal euqipment goes, laptops make the most sense in
> > the states now. but hopefully not for long. i will be the last onboard,
my
> > students make fun of me for my unsophisticated telecom gadgets.
> >
> >>> Finally, surely there are class/economic/political issues involved in
> >>> this
> >>> in terms of the technology?
> >
> >
> > Always, with new technolgies. once upon a time not everyone had clocks.
i
> > don't mean that in a snide way, rather, it is hard to imagine what
devices
> > captured theimagination of societies in different timeframes. and how
> > those same technolgoies are taken for granted today, those that aren't
> > obsolete.
> >>> Forgive me if I've missed some of the posts dealing with this.
> >>>
> >>> - Alan
> >>>
> >>>
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