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Contents 1 The Transportation of Place 2 The Shape of Locative Media 3 Freemaps 4 THE TRANSCULTURAL MEDIA READER 5 maps, maps, and more maps 6 musique concrete 7 Perception 8 sound and architecture 9 sound ecology - sound walk

The Transportation of Place

• Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
• 2006
• Aperture
• ISBN 1-59711-010-8
• link

The Shape of Locative Media

• Simon Pope
• 9.02.2005
• Mute Magazine M29
• link

• Please check out the resources EMU (Evaluation, Mobility and Usability) for relevant content on locative media, mobile gaming and mobile technologies

http://www.mdcn.ca/tiki-index.php?page=resources

• Wi: The Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network

http://www.wi-not.ca

• Headmap Manifesto

http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2003/wireless_laboratory/presentations/wireless_head_map_banff.pdf

• Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things

Mark Tuters and Kazys Vernelis, Leonardo, Volume 39, Number 4, 2006

• “Narrative Archaeology” by Jeremy Hight

http://www.xcp.bfn.org/hight.html

• The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada by Lev Manovitch

http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/augmented_space.doc (Word version)

• Location Based Mobile Media: Maps, Games & Stories (taught by Julian Bleecker)

A good syllabus with bibliography http://research.techkwondo.com/files/CTIN499_AdvancedMobileMedia_Fall05.pdf

• Locative Literacy - Albert, Saul

http://www.metamute.org/en/Locative-Literacy

• Locative Feminism - Hedditch, Emma

http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=1522&ALStart=5

• Locative Media Concepts

This piece identifies core concpets in locative media and provides a brief explanation for each. A short yet illuminating intorductory piece. http://digital.typepad.com/locative.pdf

Freemaps

In many juristictions geographic data is not in the public domain, but must be licensed and paid for. As a counter to this free map data projects around the world try and collaborativley build map data sets that can be used for free - libre and gratis - by any user. Good examples of this can be found at:

• http://freemap.in
• http://openstreetmap.org
• http://freegis.org/
• http://publicgeodata.org/ - pressure group for public geodata
• http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1736751,00.html

a mailing list on these topics

• http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking

some of these issues discussed at

• http://uo.twenteenthcentury.com/index.php/CartographicCongress

THE TRANSCULTURAL MEDIA READER

On-Line: http://locative.net/tcmreader/

1. INTRODUCTION

Ben Russell TCM Online Reader Introduction http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?intro;russell

2. SPECTRUM ECOLOGY

Jo Walsh Exploring the Eurospatial Cartel http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?secology;walsh

Zita Joyce Spectrum Ecology http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?secology;joyce

Julian Priest The State of Wireless in London (excerpt) http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?secology;priest http://informal.org.uk/people/julian/publications/the_state_of_wireless_london/

Clay Shirky The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?secology;shirky

Jonah Brucker-Cohen WiFi-Hog: From Reaction to Realization http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?secology;brucker-cohen

3. CONCEPTUAL SPACES

Ben Russell Simjects and social exo-skeletons http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?cspaces;russell

Jordan Crandall Diagrams for an "Operational Construct" http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?cspaces;crandall

Michael Boyce Mapping http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?cspaces;michael

Mark Poster Digitally Local Communications: Technologies and Space http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?cspaces;poster

Anthony Townsend Envisioning the Ubiquitous City http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?cspaces;townsend

4. LOCATIVE ARTS

Wilfried Hou Je Bek When Your House is a Robot http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?locarts;houjebek

Pete Gomes Signage For Invisibility http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?locarts;gomes

Drew Hemment Locative Arts http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?locarts;hemment-arts

Drew Hemment Locative Dystopia 2 http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?locarts;hemment-dystopia

Andrew Paterson (UK/FI) Mapping Narratives and Fieldwork http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?locarts;patterson

Sirpa Jokinen Senses Opened up to the Surrounding Space http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?locarts;jokinen

5. MAPPING

Alison Sant Redefining The Basemap http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?mapping;sant

Valdis E. Krebs Mapping Networks of Terrorist Cells http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?mapping;krebs

Richard Rogers Why Map? The Techno-epistemological outlook http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?mapping;rogers

Bonnie DeVarco Earth as A Lens: Global Collaboration, GeoCommunication, and The Birth of EcoSentience http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?mapping;devarco

Schuyler Erle Making the Geoscope a Reality http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?mapping;erle

6. PRACTICE

Marko Peljhan The Trust-System 77 Civil Counter Recconaissance Vision http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?practice;peljhan

Joni Taylor + Ryan Griffis Locating Locative Media http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?practice;taylor-griffis

Anthony Auerbach TRyPTiCHON http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?practice;auerbach

Steve Symons aura - the stuff around the stuff around you http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?practice;symons

Karen O'Rourke A Map Larger Than the Territory www.mapterritory.com http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?practice;orourke

Matthew Fuller / Graham Harwood TextFm, an account http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?practice;fuller-harwood

7. THOUGHTS

Richard Barbrook New York Prophecies http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?thoughts;barbrook

Bruce Sterling When Blobjects Rule the Earth http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?thoughts;sterling

John Thackara Scale Wars http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?thoughts;thackara

Cory Doctorow Excerpt from: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?thoughts;doctorow

Usman Haque Direct democracy: another proposal http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?thoughts;haque

8. ENDO COLONISATION

Marc Tuters The Locative Utopia http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;tuters

Branka Curcic Between utopia of networking and new colonialism http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;branka

Ewen Chardronnet Map The Dissemination / Implement The Implant http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;chadronnet

Beatriz da Costa Amateur Science, A Threat After All? http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;dacosta

Franck Ancel Walter Benjamin / Marcel Duchamp: Invoking of a Fake Parallel Dimension http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;franckancel

Patrick Lichty Locative Media, Notes on Creative Uses and Social Concerns http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;lichty

Jo van der Spek / Streamtime Team - Compiled by Geert Lovink Streamtime - Free Media For Iraq http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;lovink-stream

Geert Lovink Principles of Streaming Sovereignty http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;lovink-x

Pierre Henri Mapping access http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;henri

Brian Holmes Flowmaps, The Imaginaries of Global Integration http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;holmes

Brian Holmes S-77CCR: Eyes in the Skies / Democracy in the Streets http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;holmes-a

Josh On They Rule http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;on

Simon Worthington The Bermuda Triangle in Reverse: Mapping Contemporary Capitalism http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;worthington

Ryan M. Schoelerman The Network of Babylon [http://locative.net/tcmreader/index.php?endo;schoelerman

GPS INFO

GPS History – What is it? http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/content/view.page.asp?I=1275

Wiki History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS

How GPS receivers work http://www.howstuffworks.com/gps.htm

URL COLLECTIONS ON LOCATIVE & WIRELESS

Leonardo OnLine – Locative Media Special (has a collection of articles and bibliography on locative) http://leoalmanac.org/journal/vol_14/lea_v14_n03-04/intro.asp

http://leoalmanac.org/resources/biblio/locativemedia.asp

Art & GPS: Collection of Links on wireless, locative, history, etc. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~plevine/art_gps

ARTISTS/ARTWORKS

Morgan O’Hara - Life/time studies, drawing/mapping of movements and bodies through space - work related to bodies in space http://www.morganohara.com/

Marc Tuters, Karlis Kalnins, Phillipe Hanset - Geographitti demonstrate the concept of waypoint sharing. http://www.gpster.net/index.html

Blast Theory http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/type_mobile.html

CONFERENCES/PROGRAMMES/GROUPS

Architecture and Situated Technologies - University of Buffalo http://situatedtechnologies.net/

SensibleCity http://senseable.mit.edu/

Subtle Technologies - Responsible Architecture http://www.subtletechnologies.com/symposium/Bonnmaison-Macy.html

Situated Technologies - Includes collection of projects by artists, researchers http://www.situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/2

Social Tapestries - Public Authoring and Civil Society http://socialtapestries.net/

maps, maps, and more maps

http://persistent.info/overplot/ - although i'm not that interested in the content i really like the design of this website.

http://www.gmdir.com/index.php - directory

http://www.gothamgazette.com/arch.maps.shtml - directory

http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/nyc - directory

http://lifehacker.com/software/maps/technophilia-top-ten-nongoogle-map-innovations-211149.php - directory

http://www.planethazard.com/phabout.aspx - pollution

http://propertyshark.com/maps/ - pollution/real estate

http://www.pm-air.net/ - locative media/pollution

http://www.scubamap.net/map/# - scuba, i like this because it has user input

http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/ten.php international pollution

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/us/2006_KATRINA_MAP/index.html - new orleans/katrina

http://www.soundwalk.com/title_bronx_graffiti.php - walking tours

http://www.talkingstreet.com/ - walking tours

http://countsmedia.com//index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 - social networking

http://www.navizon.com/ - locative media software and platform

http://www.nycpov.com/gm_vr_viewer.php - 360 degree view virtual tour

http://flickr.com/photos/poagao/21123646/in/pool-memorymaps/ - make your own maps with your photos

http://www.globalenergymaps.com/index.html - not interactive but wow! amazing infrastructure maps

http://www.epa.gov/Region2/gis/webmap.htm - government maps

http://turbulence.org/Works/mobotag/ - sms txt messaging map of graffiti tags

http://www.eatwellguide.org/index.cfm - find healthy foods

http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/locations.html - find out if you're being watched

http://www.flashearth.com/ - compare google earth to all the others

http://www.brail.org/transit/nyc.html - nyc subway map

=== RELATED TO SOUND === Questions which have been regularly asked

Setting up a small studio

• by Jeff Towne

http://www.transom.org/tools/basics/200601_setting_up_a_recording_studio/

ARTISTS/ARTWORKS

• SOUNDING BRIDGES
• Bill Fontana

** Harmonic Bridge, Tate Modern and London Underground Platform for Art, London, Summer 2006 http://www.resoundings.org/Pages/Harmonic_Bridge1.htm

** Sound Sculptures through the Golden Gate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1987

** Oscillating Steel Grids along the Brooklyn Bridge,  World Trade Center and Brooklyn Museum,  New York, 1983

• JODI ROSE
  • http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/web/biogs/P000359b.htm
  • http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/Art/art3.htm

• Benoît Maubrey  : http://home.snafu.de/maubrey/

musique concrete

• • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concrète

Perception

• • infrasound

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

• •   Auditory_system
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_system
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_drum
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_ear
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_ear
    • Outer_ear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_ear

• • Music and the brain
    •  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_the_brain#External_links
    • http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0007D716-71A1-1179-AF8683414B7F0000

sound and architecture

• Andres Bosshard  : http://www.dissonanz.ch/version%20f/Compositeurs/Bosshard-f.html

article http://www.soundcity.ws/index.html

sound ecology - sound walk

http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/Soundwalk/index.htm

=== web sites === OTHER LINKS   

• we-make-money-not-art : http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
• abstractmachine: http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/
• rhyzome : http://rhizome.org
• turbulence : http://turbulence.org/spotlight/lichty

=== Books === 

• Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (Paperback)

by Nicolas Collins http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415975921/qid=1126047145/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2421436-3816140?v=glance&s=books

•  Circuit-Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments (ExtremeTech) (Paperback)

by Reed Ghazala "Looking back over the past 38 years, and having been circuit-bending throughout, I can tell you one thing with certainty: There is no better time..." (more) http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Bending-Build-Alien-Instruments-ExtremeTech/dp/0764588877/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/103-8494090-1703818