Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things
Leonardo, 2006, v. 39, no. 4, pp. 357-363
Locative media has been attacked for being to eager to appeal to commercial interesets as well as for its reliance on the Cartesian mapping systems. If theses critiques are well founded, however, they are also nostalgic, invoking a notion of art as autonomous from the circuits of mass communications technologies, which the authors argue no longer holds true. This essay begins with a survey of the development of locative media, how it has distanced itself from net art and how it has been critically received, before going on to address these critiques and ponder how the field might develop.
ITEM 2006.174 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
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.walk (dot-walk) – Social Fiction
Carnivore – Alex Galloway
Naked City – Guy Debord
Crowd Compiler – Christian Nold
MILK – Ieva Auzina
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