Exhibitionists and voyeurs human communication patterns and their impact on locative media Chris...

exhibitionists and voyeurs

human communication patterns and their impact on

locative media

Chris Heathcotehttp://www.anti-mega.com

traditional locative media

creating public annotations in space is not new

quashed only by private ownership of space

cave drawings

flags

graffiti

toilet wall

stickers

carving and scratching

envisioning future locative media

Hotel & Farm, Ben KatchorMcSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #13

envisioning future locative media

telling stories in public, and speaking to strangers are unnatural methods of communication

digital is no different

exhibition by few, voyeurism by manypublic anonymity, private identity

the few create for many

users vs. leechers

2% active for a community to form

is leeching a bad thing?

visibility

hardest problem for digital locative media is visibility

without visibility, there is no exhibitionism or ownership of space

without visibility, there are no leechers either

digital advantages

the space is infinite

limited by visualisation and filtering

can implement personal, private and public space

situated software

services designed for use by a closed group in a particular place

Internet and wireless make that place elastic

never designed to be public, or to scalemovement of software from the Internet

to hinternets and localised darknets

appropriation of space

traditional locative media appropriated place for their own ends

the same happens with digital locations- wi-fi network names used for

communication- Orkut becomes Brazilian

conclusions

using current human communication patterns enables social interaction in locative media

situate software in a place or community

digital extensions to the situations

anonymity with strangers; identity with communities

visualisation is the only limitation

thank you

chris@anti-mega.com

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