Wednesday, March 03. 2010
Locative media projects that caught my attention
Address necklace by Mouna Andraos and Sonali Sridhar:
“Address is a handmade electronic jewelry piece. When you first acquire the pendant, you select a place that you consider to be your anchor – where you were born, your home, or perhaps the place you long to be. Once the jewelry is initialized, every time you wear the piece it displays how many kilometers you are from that location, using a GPS component built into the pendant. As you take Address around the world with you, it serves as a personal connection to that place, making the world a little smaller or maybe a little bigger.“
I like the idea of having a personal connection to a place and not necessarily a human being. This is so different than the raft of buddy-finder applications.
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Via Pasta & Vinegar
Japan Media Arts festival - The Art Division
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I was glad to finally get to see Lawrence Malstaf's Nemo Observatorium which i had missed at ars electronica 2009 where it baffled the audience by receiving the Golden Nica of Interactive Art.
People were forming a long queue to be allowed to enter the transparent cylinder and sit on its chair, right in the eye of the upcoming storm... Once you've press the start button, a huge volume of foam polystyrene beads swirl frantically against the internal wall of the cylinder.
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Via WMMNA
Related Links:
Dan Hill - New Soft City
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