Nurturing aesthetic experimentation and alternative forms of production, distribution and consumption, the indie game culture has grown in the past decade gaining global and local recognition. As part of this evolution, practitioners have started to create geographically localized community organizations that foster assembling informal innovation ecosystems and cultivating social, cultural, and human resources. In cities…
New terms have been created for referring to the information communication technologies and practices that are functionally bound to place. These new tools (hardware and software), and the interactions people have with them, are both location-aware and location-oriented. They not only use geographically referenced information to function but also produce it. While media artists and…
The Internet is the most important socio-technological system that exists in the new networked communication environment. As a “network of networks” (Dutton, 1996) the Internet has expanded globally creating the biggest communication system of interconnected personal computers (the PC/Internet grid). Thanks to its open, distributed, and multidirectional architecture (Benkler 2006; Karaganis 2008) and its principle…
Navigating with GPS data and mobile devices is an act of recording. As we move in the space of the physical world using smartphones or other kind of GPS-enabled devices our position is constantly being recorded into a digital file with precise geodetic coordinates (longitude, latitude, altitude) and universal timestamps (Gregorian calendar and Universal Coordinated…
One of my favorite media arts is animation. Although in recent years I have stopped producing content in this format, the medium, its aesthetics, and its language continue to be very important in my art practice, and continue to nurture my imagination and creativity. Last night, while searching for a short film we could watch…
The Geospatial Web or Geoweb is the system that combines precise geographic information with World Wide Web content (Haklay et al. 2008; Elwood and Leszczynski, 2012; Scharl and Tochtermann, 2007 ). The components of the Geoweb are the tools, applications, data, protocols, and practices that merge Internet digital content with locational referents (Elwood and Leszczynski,…
The third Blue Genie annual Danger Derby was fantabulous. Eighty pinewood cars with no-rules customized designs competed for the precious derby trophy and survived the world famous hazards of a 100-foot long track. An audience of more than 600 people got together at the parking lot of the Blue Genie Art Industries to scream, cheer,…