[-empyre-] Augmented reality as public art, mobile location based monuments and virtual memorials

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi - I'm not sure how to reply to this; I've been thinking about it. One 
thing about locative art is its oddly inert quality - it's _there_ and 
remains there, is fixed there. It's _there_ in the sense of geographic 
location, and _there_ in the sense of specific technology needed to reveal 
it, almost as if it's embedded in the technology, welded to it. The 
ephemerality lies in the fact that it takes a specific, soon-to-be- 
outdated technology to run, as well as energy; unlike a physical public 
monument, the energy is meted out within a specific regime of capital and 
control. So the 'We' in electracy you talk about is inextricably mixed 
with capital, with enclaving, and with the specifics of location; only the 
last is accessible to everyone. In this sense, what you call 'this virtual 
public sphere' is a 'real private sphere' whose manifestation or represen- 
tation is is virtual.

- Alan

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