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.
Mocatour
Something about Layar continues to spark inspiration in others. Here’s a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Frank Nack, who is trying to build a grafiti system on top of it. Http://mocatour.wordpress.com
Soundpheres.nl
Soundspheres.nl is a new Dutch initiative that allows you to create locative soundscapes. It’s focus is on euducational use. http://soundspheres.nl/
We’re hosting a workshop on mobile storytelling
Do you want to develop your own locative story or experience? Come you us during our workshop at SETUP in Utrecht on the 10th of July. We’ll be looking at some theory and some examples, but mostly we’ll go hands on with state of the art web-based tools to create some basic experiences right there...
Ghost Garden by Champagne Valentine
We only just discovered this project which has been developed in Amsterdam. The interface tries to get away from the utilitarian map interface. Exactly what we like to see.
Found wireless art
This is near The Kaag, a lake in the west of Holland. Passers-by ring a phonenumber to be treated to a story about the location. The exact location can be found on this map. Near cafe “De Vergulde Vos” in Rijpwetering
Mind Your Step
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWOusgzwAPU One example of a project that was built using our Treasuremapper software is an interactive audiotour called Mind Your Step, which could be experienced during the 2010 Motel Mozaique Festival. During a course on Locative Media Storytelling (given by NetNiet.org’s Tijmen Schep), students Sjoerd Rijsbergen and Jeroen Stoker developed an audiotour which allowed you to literally...
Ode aan het Luchtspoor
During a course on Locative Media Storytelling (given by NetNiet.org’s Tijmen Schep), WDKA students Sjoerd Rijsbergen and Jeroen Stoker recreated the sounds of an infamous traintrack, the Luchtspoor, that used to runs traight through the center of Rotterdam. The tracks now run underground, but using GPS technology they brought them back above ground. Walking around with a...