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.

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. 

http://networkedpublics.org/mito/blog/oshare_majo_rockman_and_the_future_of_location_based_entertainment

http://osharemajo.com/intro/way.html

Sega made a game for children beauty game.  They can wear whatever they want.  Many of their clothes like some Japanese animation characters.   Then they can dance wherever they choose from.  It is like a magic mirror that I used to play as a kid.  All the stages that they choose are places that they get attention.  Audience can virtually experience different scene that they can not get in, and they are idols in all of those stages.

Regarding one of our former class discussions regarding bluetooth tracking, I’m noticing more stories about law enforcement using bluetooth to track people.  Most of these stories are comming out of London.  Though some of the stories are short, most of them seem to be on the cautious side.  England itself is one of the most video monitored societies in the world, and ‘big brother’ is looking for all the help it can get to monitor all of its citizens.  Personally, it is kind of creepy when a socitey goes as far as to monitor all of its people by camera, but now with bluetooth, Londoners are going to be giving away intimate details about who they are and the places they’ve been as technology becomes better suited for the government to look at all of its citizens. 

So for my final project I want to use the geocash and the media scape to come up with something fun. Maybe I’ll tell a story about me and the things you listen to while you walk around well reflect that. I was also thinking of some kind of adventure with music and sound effects to help you get into the fantasy of it all. Either way the store about me would be something funny that’s happen to me or the adventure would be light hearted and maybe even funny. My objective is to have the people that do this have a good time.

My theme for a final project is to pick up and record my body signal everyday.  Since body and mind influence each other very well, I want to know more about my body environment so that I can have healthier mind.
My method for this project is using GPS, Goggle map and body map.  I will file my information describing what is going on with me biologically.  That information will be on the map so that they can look at them.  The audience can experience the sound of my experience of my body while they are walking around based on my map.
My goal for this project is to be more aware of our body environment in order to prevent accident.

I just wanted to drop a few lines about the mediascape projects that everyone did.  The projects were fun and entertaining, I especially liked the fact that a majority of projects were musically based.  As for the creation of the projects, it was difficult in the begining, but over the development time of the projects, it became much more engaging to work on.  Good job on all of the mediascapes that were created.

http://www.mercurynews.com/olympics/ci_8863095

As news breaks along the relay route, points are updated on the map so you can follow it in very close to live time.  Sofar many people have begun lining the route awaiting the torch.

I found this interesting, although it may not be art, it is locative…

There’s no denying it: during the production of these mediascape projects there were a number of technological shortcomings that were nothing short of mildly perturbing.  Aside from the obvious (technology and software that actually works), I’ve been thinking about features that would be really nice to have had.

I thought that Mscape had a fairly decent user interface that was easy enough for a beginner to get into, but there was also a lack of features (possibly because it was a beta version).  I would have really liked Mscape to have uni-directional polygons or some sort of similar feature that would allow a sound to be triggered when the person walks across a marker in one direction, but not when going in the opposite direction.  Or possibly a hole that could sit in the middle of a polygon and nullify existing sounds.  This could probably be done with scripting tricks but I wasn’t successful in my attempts to do it.

And, oh, the eternal crisis of GPS drift…  We need Local Positioning Devices that could just sit fixed in local locations and then send us relative local position information.  It would work like map aligner, but give us our GPS coordinates based on it’s calculations.  As the Local Positioning Devices record their GPS information, they would average their positions and give us much more stable information based on their data.

I think there was more, but this is all I remember…