What is Locative Media

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Media content that contains information about geographic location; or, location-aware media interfaces. Learn more in: Mobile Games

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Art and technology practices that employ location-aware technologies in exploring novel or unconventional relations between cartography, place, community, sociality, and technology. Learn more in: Extreme Informatics: Toward the De-Saturated City

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Locative media attaches digital media to global positioning satellite (GPS) coordinates accessed by mobile communication technologies. Locative media is an artistic sub-branch of ubiquitous computing research initiated at a “Mapping the Zone” workshop held at RIXC in Riga, Latvia, 2003. Its early practitioners, such as Marc Tuters and Karlis Kalnins, were interested in the relationship between the military developments of this technology and the types of proximity or relationality it can reveal about spaces and places. To date, it has been taken up by a number of artists, researchers, and activists interested in extending the shared potential of the technology by creating applications allowing users share local histories and community based information. Learn more in: Voices from Beyond: Ephemeral Histories, Locative Media and the Volatile Interface

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Media delivered using portable digital systems such as PDAs, phones etc., which respond to the location of the user. Learn more in: Art and Technology for Health