ART511 - Locative Studio Spring 2008

We are presenting our project to the class tomorrow. We have set up a blog for the project we would love for you to check it out http://byebyebeige.wordpress.com/.

We have been busy collecting various audio files and recording the story of our final project. we are just now starting to imagine how our own vision of the story might take shape. There is no shortage of attempts to capture the complexity of the story we are trying to tell in a simplified auditory form, and this brief glimpse of the travel experience will no doubt be incomplete. One thing I desperately wish we had was more time. A lesson learned is not to fall ill in the last 3 weeks of classes, and not to procrastinate the essential planning to the project.

I hope everyone else is having more success than I. Can’t wait to experience everyone else’s projects.

Here’s a fun one, albeit kind of mean: http://www.coin-operated.com/projects/wifihog.html
It really messes with the relationship between private and public cyber spaces.  It takes over public wireless networks, so that only the person using the wifi-hog can use it.  While it seems to be intended to screw with people’s perceptions of ownership, I think it may be doing so in a way that is hostile to public interests.

For the final presentation you need to assume your audience is new to locative media and is not a member of this class. You will give a short talk about your project where your will discuss your ideas, goals, and inspiration of the project. You need to make sure your audience knows what they are suppose to do. Where do they start to interact with your project? Will the path(s) they are suppose to take be evident? You will have 30 minutes to present your project to us, which includes letting the class experience your work.

Here is the schedule for the Final Presentations:

Tuesday May 13

2:10 - 2:40 Phyllis and David

2:45 to 3:15 Aaron

3:20 - 3:50 Sergio

3:55- 4:25 Arash

4:25 - 4:50 Discussion

Thursday May 15

2:10 - 2:40 Kyoko

2:45 to 3:15 Don

3:20 - 3:50 Elizabeth and Kira

3:55- 4:50 Discussion & Party

Final Project Paper. Due by Final Exam Time - May 20, 2008 4:50PM

Your final projects need to be accompanied by a 5 page paper, approximately 850 - 1000 words. With this paper you are making an argument for your work. You are articulating your ideas, goals, and process of your project. This paper needs to do the following:

1) Describe your project

2) Theoretically contextualize your project. You need to reference reading we have done in class, refer to at least 3 class sources. You can bring in outside sources if you like as well.

3) It needs to place your project within the locative media field, so address what locative projects it is similar to or is a departure from.

4) Provide documentation oh how it works, describe what technology, hardware and process of your project.

For my final project, I am planning to do another media scape project.  Once again it will be on campus, but I’m planning to use as much of the campus as possible.  What I would like to do is create a campus tour with the hand held devices, but the tour would be a parody of a real tour.  I would like my tour to be as funny as possible and include images when getting to certain destinations.  After seeing others include music in their previous projects, I would like to do the same in mine.