Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things

Tuters, Marc; Varnelis, Kazys

doi:10.1162/leon.2006.39.4.357

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“…The headmap manifesto is cited by some theorists (Lenz, 2004;Tuters and Varnelis, 2006;Zeffiro, 2012) that these devices became popular.' As a result, GPS technology was made 'much more accurate, allowing users to locate specific places and objects on the globe's surface.'…”

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FCJ-216 ‘Know Your Place’: headmap manifesto and the Vision of Locative Media

Leorke¹

2017

FCJ

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Ben Russell's headmap manifesto (1999) is an early and highly influential example of the discourse around commercial location-aware technologies that accompanied their emergence at the turn of the last century. Although numerous theorists acknowledge its influence on the fields of urban computing and locative media art, there have been few close analyses of the text and little consideration of its ongoing relevance in the current era of smartphones, location-based social networks and 'smart city urban planning initiatives. In this paper, I seek to address this shortcoming through a close examination of headmap and its influence on the discourse around what became known as 'locative media'. I argue that headmap offers a polemical, utopian vision of the world as it might have been, but also highlights the disparity between academic and artistic discourses around location-aware technologies and their current mainstream application.

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FCJ-216 ‘Know Your Place’: headmap manifesto and the Vision of Locative Media

Leorke¹

2017

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“…Smart City projects are led by multinational corporations such as Cisco and Microsoft, and are becoming more utilized as a model for development [10][11][12][13]. In 2012 it was reported that over 180 developing cities in China were following a similar model [14].…”

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Distributed Cognition: Assessing the Structure of Urban Scale Artificial Intelligence

Webb¹

2017

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Urban scale artificial intelligence (AI) is most frequently structured to sense and gather as much information as possible. Is this the most appropriate evaluation of intelligence? Many descriptions of so-called Smart Cities focus exclusively on their sensorial capabilities, but little is given to their cognitive capacities. Discussion of the deployment of computation within the urban environment has largely avoided notions of cognition, though a capacity for cognition is ultimately what we are asking of anything that is to be "smart". Cognition itself may be presented in a variety of ways, and determining what structure is most appropriate for urban scale AI is a critical discussion with significant implications for our collective ecological footprint. This article attempts to frame the integration of urban scale AI within a discussion of cognitive structures by building from the work of Benjamin Bratton and Edwin Hutchins to analyze the material culture of Masdar City and the Internet of Things, ultimately arguing that strategies of distributed cognition are both more feasible and more performative than a traditional Smart City model.

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“…Creative interventions in this domain fall under locative media in which location and time are considered essential to the work [24], alluding to the fact that a user's context and their movement through space need to be taken into consideration during the design process for a mobile media system. Locative systems encompass a number of different fields and applications, from art to academic research, including many different authoring tools, games and narrative experiences [8].…”

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