Treasuremapper

Treasuremapper

Treasuremapper is tool that we created to help artists more easily create stories and other experiences in public space. The software, which is open source (and thus free) allows you to create “locative media” experiences on GPS-enabled mobile devices such as smartphones. Using GPS Treasuremapper makes it easy to show certain...
Gifted - What is your popularity worth?

Gifted – What is your popularity worth?

Gifted is a participatory installation that was built in 2008 for the Impakt Festival in Utrecht. It is one of our biggest and most eye-catching works. The installation explores the future of social networks as reputation quantification systems, and the repercussions this could have interactions in society. The tagline “what is...
Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism

For the 2008 ZXZW festival we joined forces with designer Ruben Pater to create a participatory installation based around mobile photography. We asked festival visitors to use their cameraphones to capture and share their festival experience, turning the visitors into our army of reporters. Pictures could be sent to a...
BelBellen

BelBellen

  During the 2007 Cinekid Exhibition kids were surprised to find an enormous phone that displayed a phonenumber on it’s screen. As soon as they called that number (often a parent would assist), the phone lit up and it started blowing soap bubbles for 30 seconds. The title refers to the double...
NotSpots

NotSpots

Usually when you connect to a wifi hotspot you expect to be able to surf the internet like normal. But with our NotSpots, no matter which website you try to visit, you will always be shown just the one that we want you to see. Cruel and unusual, but by...
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Docs on the Spot

Docs on the Spot

While it doesn’t seem to use GPS, it’s still great to see a spatialised documentary being made. Especially in Amsterdam. Check it out. Don’t feel like going all the way to Amsterdam to see the videos? Gleam the right codes from here. Or just watch the original documentary it’s based on..

Datavizualisation using Impure

We’ve been looking into datavizualisation a lot recently (although it’s not very wireless art related), and one of the cool tools we found was Impure. It’s a visual programming tool that outputs things like this: a vizualisation of the amount of people living in cities:

Urbanized

This wonderful projects uses chalk to tell inhabitants of buildings how much energy they are using. The directness is a bit scary too: whomever isn’t frugal with energy is spotlighted pretty harshly. Still, interesting. http://collabcubed.com/2011/11/01/the-tidy-street-project/
Creating tours

Creating tours

I was pointed to an open-source tool for creating museum tours a little while back, called Tap Tours. Anything open-source in this field gets my vote, so I thought I’d share: http://code.google.com/p/tap-tours/

Ogmento

Ogmento is a very interesting iPhone game. Combining Augmented Reality with locative and pervasive gaming elements, Ogmento looks to be, technically at least, at the forefont of what’s possible. http://ogmento.com/apps/60

songline

Named after the Aboriginal culture of creating songs for specific walks, songline is a tool that comes close to the tool I’m looking for. The project could really use some love from a user interface designer to make it more useable and sexy though. It’s even hard to just read the menu. http://songline.nl/

Rapid-deployment of mobile services

It’s becoming a lot easier (relatively) to deploy your own GSM system. Both with positive and negative consequences. For example, telecommunications in Libya has been made possible recently through a new network set-up by the rebels. It’s an interesting read. The systems, which fit in a briefcase, are made by  Tecore. I first came accross this...

The BAG

In Holland there is a new system that standardises all addresses. It’s called the BAG. It’s a problem that is very similar to the problems that location based services like Facebook and Foursquare have: they are all independantly creating a database of places in the world. Restaurants, homes, workplaces.. any place where we check in...
Shenzen Shanzai

Shenzen Shanzai

Traveling ethnographer David Kousemaker recently updated me about his travels. He had just returned from the Far East with a brand new iPhone.. or so it seemed. It was a fake, but an incredibly good fake. I highly recommend a wonderful blogpost that describes his amazement at the work-shops he found there. He describes what he considers to...
Mobile Storytelling

Mobile Storytelling

Have you ever been on a GPS tour? They can be really boring. Let’s change that. In this workshop we explore the various possibilities that new location-aware smartphones offer. New tools make creating these experiences as easy as drawing on a map! A screenshot of a tool we can use, called Treasuremapper. Contents In this workshop...
Wanderlust

Wanderlust

It’s always fun to discover others who are thinking the same thing. Here, the makers of Wanderlust, a new location-based storytelling tool, explain issues and chances they see for mobile storytelling that remind me of a blogpost I wrote for The Mobile City a while ago.

Poezie-Apps

“Zoals” is the name of a ‘poetry app’ built by Ingrid Goovers and Maichiel Veltkamp. It’s a visual experience that uses the phone as a virtuel window onto a abstract reality which is itself based on a poem by Judith Hertzberg. More at: http://www.poezie-apps.nl