Posts Tagged ‘technology’
locative narrative software
I’ve just come across 7scenes, free software for iphones and android phones that allows you to make locative narratives.
Here’s a nice example of one called ‘Walking Shoes:Directed by DAMMSel‘ made by an artist Leola LeBlanc in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
nokia comob
I just got comob working on the Nokia N96 borrowed from the mobilities lab.
It seems a bit slower than the iphone, and the zoom of the map and satellite images seem to stop zooming in, but the lines and locations keep going so that I ended up with the locations mismatched (on a different scale) with the map or satellite image. This would be quite a serious issue if we were playing a game with the phones, the ability to zoom in and out to see the whole group or an individual would be quite important in the version of fox and hounds that I’m proposing to play. For other applications, performances and installations it might not matter so much.
I’ve ended up using an O2 pay & go SIM, with an internet bolt on for £7.50 a month, (unlimited internet), using the MMS settings.
Image and geotag
WordPress allows me to include a geotag in my blog posts, but so far it is only visible when I edit the post (see image), not on the actual blog. WordPress say that there will soon be support for making the location of posts visible on the blog.
“Where is public geo data exposed?
Geotagged posts get marked up with the geo microformat, geo.position and ICBM meta tags, and GeoRSS and W3C geodata in feeds. All of this stuff is “machine readable”, not “human readable”; it’s hidden from view.
We’ll soon be launching a bunch of human readable stuff like theme integration, widgets, shortcodes, maps, etc.
Also, geotagged posts and profiles will be searchable in the soon-to-be-launched WordPress.com Geo Search.”
Mobile blogging
Just testing the wordpress iPhone app, about to go for a walk with my new garmin gps, and to think about a proposal I’m writing.
We Love Technology (sometimes)
a belated post about wlt.
Some great speakers -
Ben Dalton from Leeds Met, had spoken to me in the break, and talked about stitching maps on a sewing machine. In his talk he spoke about ‘Knitted News’ in Turkey, using processing and a knitting machine. He also talked about the “Afghan Explorer” project, and suggested that it allowed the media to talk about some interesting social issues through talking about an art project.
And of course Andrew Wilson talked about Five Trees Forest www.fivetreesforest.org what I loved about his talk were the observations of how users communicate with the game.
Tom Betts commented on our talk that games all have a heads up display map and well as the ‘in game’ view – this could be something useful to look at in terms of multiple perspectives in a physical world.
Andrew Shanahan (www.movingaudio.co.uk) talking about ’230 miles of love’ and other projects. Particularly editing the points of Interest on a SatNav, so that they play comedy. I remember seeing this in the paper when it was launched to play comedy at specific locations in your car.
and this great project where he’s putting plaques on benches about invented people in the devenish-phibbs family as a way to introduce people into a narrative. You have to google the name from the unusual plaques to get involved, but there are no instructions to tell you, its for inquisitive people. www.croydevenishphibbs.co.uk
Yuri Suzuki’s beautiful Jellyfish Theremin & cut up record railway track.
Tom Wynne-Morgan gave an interesting talk about the role of fiction in making things real, and how we use technology to reflect on ourselves and our humanity. I liked his visual process, collecting and editing together found video & animation to make kind of moodboard films to think about. ‘Pilots blink more than co-pilots’ ‘women blink more than men’. www.tomwm.co.uk
