[-empyre-] various to empyre Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12

[Alan Sondheim]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, empyre-request at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote:

> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:44:40 +0200
> From: "xDxD.vs.xDxD" <xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com>
>
> As the next steps of the REFF project (and its AR drug, and its "youth 
> program on the methodological reinvention of reality") we are planning 
> two very powerful actions for the next few months and if, anyone is 
> interested, i can keep you all updated about them: they will go straight 
> into this direction and include in all this a deep and disruptive 
> reflection on capital, and money.
>
Please do keep us updated! - if you have an email list for such, pleaes 
add me.

> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:04:31 +1000
> From: Rodney Berry <rodberry at gmail.com>
>
> That ephemerality is an attractive part of it though. Plaforms live on 
> under emulation and remediation in the newer platforms, like how we 
> watch TV on the internet.
>
There are of course still issues of interoperability (as anyone using 
linux soon finds out - at leastt it's been my experience).

> The piece was protrayed as a malfunctioning museum exhibit from way back 
> in 2010, the year that long-ignored predictions of global innundation by 
> elvis imersonators finally came to pass.
>
I'm really interested in this - the idea of failure as inherent in work - 
could you say more about this?

> From: "Lichty, Patrick" <plichty at colum.edu>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: [-empyre-] JC's post
>
> Well, the first thing that I think of is having spoken with one of the 
> protesters on Tahrir Square in Cairo when she visited my school last 
> week.  She had mentioned that they had mapped out where all of the 
> police where and what all of the escape routes were in case Mubarak 
> decided to crack down.  So, consider this - could AR layers in the 
> public spehere be used as tools for activism, with people dynamically 
> reporting bottlenecks and trouble spots in real time via Layar? 
> Imagine there being an altercation and swinging up your phone and seeing 
> the way out - very Max Headroom.  I see this happening though, and it 
> could have been used quite well in Seattle.
>
> But what about other applications, like JC's critical US/Mexican border 
> project, or even critical issues regardin abandoned spaces?  All of this 
> seems wide opemn for discussion.
>
It would be amazing to have a piece of AR software that could be loaded, 
like Google maps etc., by anyone, with specific content - an example I 
gave being radiation levels around Fukushima. So you might have an AR open 
structure that could delineate areas with specific symbols and content - 
something simple enough that a person with no programming experience at 
all could place in an app.

Call the app 'Warning' for example. A creator would upload coordinates (or 
even places by walking around them); would then upload an accompanying 
symbol or symbols demarcating the area; would then upload a text 
accompanying both. A user would turn on the app 'Warning' and read out 
whatever was there. If there were more than one (overlapping or not) AR at 
the spot, they could be indexed. If someone spammed with an enormous 
number of AR, the user might be able to get a specific channel number to 
tune to, etc. The idea would be that the AR would be social, as easy to 
use as Facebook, interoperable, and capable of responding to everything 
from crowds/military to radiation leaks.

- Alan