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
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/
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...
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
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
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.
Duncan Speakman
Sometimes you find people who have perfect last names. Duncan is one of these people, as all his works are locative sounds pieces. Some use GPS, but he has also created a wicked phone-based work called “we are forests” together with Amsterdam based cultural geek Arjan Scherpenisse. Check out Duncan’s works.
Repudo
An interesting Dutch startup that allows you to “drop digital artefacts (mediafiles) in the real world”: Repudo.
Augmented Reality Cinema
Now this looks interesting: Augmented Reality Cinema. When I tought a course on Locative Storytelling at the WDKA, the students were asked to bring an existing story to life, preferably around a movie. This project would have been a great example to show the students as inspiration.
Working on this new website
We’re working on this new website that is better able to show our current practices. You can still visit our previous website.