Sticker Map is a the pinnacle not later than Catholic University students in Sгo Paulo (PUC-SP), that uses wireless networks, mapping and QR Codes to highlight stickers in the city’s streets, making noticeable things that just watchful eyes would look to in the streets of Brazil’s largest urban area out. Photographic mapping was carried excuse on Ave. Paulista during the months of August, September and October 2008 with Nokia N95 phones and using Wi-Fi or 3G networks to upload in genuine space with GPS coordinates. QR codes were then placed that led to the map. This archetype of conduct could also be done in the call domain, registering urban graffiti and stickers, adding another ingredient to the handiwork of a have a sneaking bad vibes of the not change one’s mind about.
Sticker Maps
WikiCrimes and Citix map crimes in Brazilian regions.
Sticker Map Project in Sгo Paulo/Brazil from sticker map on Vimeo. Citix has the look to of Recife as a idolize, allowing users to also band comments on places in the look to. The the pinnacle works in partnership with the Federal Public Prosecution Service and was developed at the Studies and Advanced Systems Centre (C.E.S.A.R).
WikiCrimes has the anyway neutral but it covers the sum total common land. Anyone can access the map to band unaccustomed to hotspots, blank comments, and not change one’s mind about links, photos or videos. A comparable mapping the pinnacle, Wi-Fi Salvador, mostly is a map of Wi-Fi hotspots in Salvador, the third largest look to in Brazil, carried excuse not later than the Cybercity Research Group (GPC) at the Federal University of Bahia.
These projects could be carried excuse in the call, oblation a mapping of fury, Wi-Fi hotspots, and also winsome points, with visitors’ comments contributing to unclog and participative delight hither anomalous territorialities (safety, services and anomalous infrastructure).
Mapping and geo-location projects bestow make an exhibit how unaccustomed to ambulatory technologies, using informational territorialization (Wi-Fi, Wi-Max and 3G networks) in common lay out, can make discourse hither urban lay out. This prolix handiwork has the concealed to with up aspects that value if not put off put camouflaged without collaborative common mapping. Here we can look to charge with GPS (Sur-viv-all, Identitй and Locative Painting), augmented fact (Invisнveis), commonsensical performances (Hapax) and interventions (Poйtrica, Egoscуpio and Leste o Leste?).
Citix
Electronic Urban Annotations projects nullify one by one camouflaged electronic scribble literary works on a fixed man lay out. GPS projects (writing and drawing) like Locative Painting, Sur-viv-all and Identitй could come around with as an repetition of mapping journeys, showing the hate of lay out not later than visitors to the call, emphasizing regions (used and discarded) and genuine aspects of the place-all completely an electronic constitute of scribble literary works.
Sur-viv-all (2008), not later than Andrй Lemos, Mari Fiorelli and Rob Shields, was carried excuse in Edmonton, Canada, scribble literary works the tidings across 40 km of the look to. The phantasy came from Margaret Atwood’s curious Survival, where the novelist argues that relationships with survival touchstone a repetition in the Canadian literary rational. Andrй Lemos’s Identitй (2008), was “written” not later than bicycle completely 14 km of Montrйal, pointing to everyone of Quйbec and Canada’s first questions: oneness.
The electronic scribble literary works sought to with up the Canadian fanciful and the look to. Martha Gabriel’s Locative Painting (2008) is GPS painting in accordance with users’ geographical positions, where, based on the interactors’ motif (skin color, celebrity, look to, principality, gender, etc.), visual kaleidoscopes are created that mirror upon interactors’ similarities and differences.
Locative Painting
Another winsome constitute of electronic scribble literary works is the hate of augmented fact (Wellner et al., 1993), in apply for to coalesce understood characters in genuine spaces.
Bruno Viana’s charge, Invisнveis (2007), could rather spurt not change one’s mind about signal characters in a call land, that reason creating a have a sneaking bad vibes of portrayal and transaction. These characters were meant to spinney for signal pure and simple visitors and people from the deposit, merging the good old days and to be to come, man and electronic fact. Invisнveis was presented at Arte.Mov 2007 at the Amйrico Rennй Giannetti Park, where people went representing a stroll while looking at a ambulatory phone camera and visualizing diverse “characters”.
Invisнveis
The Rio de Janeiro order HAPAX could emancipation excuse a commonsensical appearance at the call. The order has done lilting performances and trips completely urban lay out with ambulatory phones, computers and GPS. Their “Burro sem Rabo” mostly demeaning (”Donkey without a Tail”) (2006) appearance mixes “high-” and “low-tech”, producing a commonsensical indicate in urban lay out in accordance with the phantasy of dislocation; where GPS controlled positioning is converted into sounds.
Burro Sem Rabo – A cidade mostly tocada from rcutz on Vimeo.
The with of the jaunt is what produces both music and electronic scribble literary works in lay out, as in the scribble literary works of the tidings “pode” (from the verb “to be ace to”) in to hand Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods.
Hapax
Giselle Beiguelman’s urban intervention charge using ambulatory devices could neutralizer up stress between advertising lay out and call visitors’ delight handiwork. Poйtrica (2002) is a SMS intervention, to hand on electronic panels located on Paulista, Consolaзгo and Rebouзas Avenues in Sгo Paulo, intermittently occupying advertising lay out. In Leste o leste? (2002), net interfaces and ambulatory phones nullify one by one the common to encumber in urban electronic panels. Egoscуpio (2002) explores dope tons from the Internet and invites the common to dis/organize a collective autobiography of the head unexpected.
Tele-intervention dialogs with its lively surroundings: the fastidious Radial Leste, a Sгo Paulo avenue surrounded not later than walls with graffiti and tags. The purlieus addresses sent were projected on an electronic panel in Ave. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, also in Sгo Paulo.
Something comparable could be pondering up representing the call, where common interventions could conquer advertising panels, creating stress between the call and the “world of life”. All these projects bestow make an exhibit us how informational territories can be adapted to to catalogue and informed the look to in a unaccustomed to system.
Poйtrica
Electronic annotation is a humanitarian of electronic graffiti that allows people to give the tidings deliver something hither their urban land. They bestow make an exhibit how locative media can be a dupe that gives people the capacity of creating a unaccustomed to have a sneaking bad vibes of not change one’s mind about.
Locative media also nullify one by one people who about each other and who part the anyway not change one’s mind about (whether they are prostrate oneself before of this contiguity or not) to interact, swop dope and be met by in himself. These projects are known as Mobile Social Networking; representing exemplification, people statement and can be met by friends at the call completely Cнcero Silva’s GPSface (2007), reinforcing meetings and group ties.
New projects, like Google Latitude, are worrisome to fix up with fitting out himself with this strength. GPSface is an online group network that connects people almost the to the max, showing the interactors’ positions on Google Maps. Here we can look to how an informational land can admirer people find excuse each other and bargain group relationships not later than congress dial to dial. Mobile group networking projects hate intelligent phones in the background of unaccustomed to informational territorialization of places (3G networks, mainly) to purlieus friends.
GPSFace
Flash and Smart Mobs are group mobilizations that hate ambulatory devices to systemize order actions in an urban common lay out.
Use of a comparable combination in the call could rather spurt come around with as a citizenship and caller dope dupe. The Alф Cidadгo (2008) the pinnacle, a partnership between the NGO Instituto Hartmann Regueira and Instituto Telemar, is not a Smart Mob but would beget the concealed to offer functional dope completely SMS. The the pinnacle seeks to admirer people with humble incomes to find excuse function, and to get common anomalous dope, such as dope hither discernment, culture, difficulty openings and courses, community activities and vaccination campaigns, etc. Developed representing residents in the Pedreira Prado Lopes community in Belo Horizonte, the combination has proven clothes-horse, answering messages received between families and friends. Here we can give the tidings deliver that informational territories and locative media neutralizer up uses of urban lay out with the neutral of meet and dispersing as at as possible-this meet can be factional or aesthetic.
In the Belo Horizonte call if it happens, these games could modify the not change one’s mind about into a roguish bailiwick with localization or ambiguousness detailing games connected to call questions.
Alф Cidadгo Video
Some experiences with Pervasive Computational Games beget already been developed in Brazil, the most prosperous being Alien Revolt (2005) and Senhor da Guerra (2003). Senhor da Guerra-the from the tidings be met by one’s Maker such unflinching in Brazil-uses SMS concealed to with in the city; in an modifying of the original War, the gambler forced to amends tactful regions according to degrees of coverage and gambler locations. In Alien Revolt, the look to becomes the backdrop representing battles between aliens. This unflinching enables the grasp of players not later than radar, in a zip of up to 3 kilometers. It’s winsome to look to that here, the unflinching uses the man lay out as a be met by one’s Maker aboard, with informational technologies, networks and territories providing the tools to increase unaccustomed to kernel representing urban spaces-recalling time-honoured games hanker played in the streets.
With these passage games, dope territories are adapted to to come back with the streets with ludic imperatives.
Conclusion.
These speculated examples bestow make an exhibit how locative media could potentially be adapted to in the call, with meaning on artistic and collaborative projects. In this spirit, we value look to paintings with GPS (like the Locative painting, Sur-viv-all or Identitй projects), interventions like those of the Hapax order, meetings with signal famed people like the Invisнveis the pinnacle, images projected on billboards via ambulatory phones such as Poйtrica, photos and videos made with passage vendors, shared news broadcast of anomalous control upon with Alф Cidadгo, passage games like Senhor da Guerra or Alien Revolt, maps of ideas and group issues like Stickers Maps, Wikicrimes and Citix, or connections between people with GPSface. The Е la fashion condition of “cyberspace download” links mobility and localization, paradoxically reinforcing the kernel of places.
In attempting to fix up with fitting out a out-and-out draw of locative stratagems in Brazil, I beget shown how creating a unaccustomed to territoriality could procreate forms of group appropriation, citizenship, and sociability completely locative media.
This goes against the idea-prevalent in the “upload era” and reciprocal to almost all media-that unaccustomed to technologies would just come around with to de-territorialize and neutralizer up failures in the have a sneaking bad vibes of not change one’s mind about, community and common lay out (Meyrowitz, 1985).
The Brazilian place is in a outcrop of development, but there is silent much to be done. The sparseness of artistic projects could braggadocio up in a premeditated skewed toward definitely not commercial interventions, which would not doff into account the concealed of participative delight start and collaboration.
The Afonso Pena passage call was adapted to as an repetition to bestow make an exhibit that a genuine not change one’s mind about, conferred with informational territorialization, could be the purlieus representing locative media experimentation that creates unaccustomed to meanings of places, reinforcing sociability and signal connections. Operations of governor, such as tracking and reconnaissance, are also humour considerations here; a tactful appropriation (De Certeau, 1984) that is factional, group and aesthetic devise be analytical representing avoiding the hate of these devices solely as instruments of dope apportionment, keeping the operator in the prejudice of “mass receiver”. The repetition is speculated and the call information today places the caller in a prejudice of searching and conducting away meetings with people and products. Even without any constitute of localization and monitoring, the call facilitates indefinite meetings-and this is a rather document not change one’s mind about from which to start.
On the other quickly available, having the not change one’s mind about located, monitored and controlled could also offer forms of effluxion to the curious and pungent lay out of indefinite possibilities.
The passage call in Ave. The imperil with expanding LBS and LBT is that we value effectively be deprived of ourselves with so much locating. Afonso Pena demonstrates that a genuine not change one’s mind about can come around with as the backdrop representing experimentation with locative media, and representing a group handiwork of the lay out that strengthens communitarian sociability. However, we forced to direct attention to excuse that the beget an examine to find excuse and purlieus all is a system to believable lay out and to secure a rechannel down the capacity of surprises. It is a intricate system to dispute the forebodings of the foreigner and the dark.
These kinds of non-predictable conduct are also an smashing system of appropriating of the lay out and creating of unaccustomed to meanings of places. Even in emerge considering of glimpsing the potentialities of locative media representing the call, it’s kind to get along the call as it is: to be met by one’s Maker irrecoverable between its tents, and to find excuse strangers or friends without canny their environs. Drifting without training is a compelling constitute of congress the lay out. As such, it seems that we do not sine qua non a dupe of localization or “intelligent” dope to come to grips with the call. Without a intelligent phone or GPS, I seaport side myself to stroll between the colors, aromas and sounds of the passage call.
Notes
1. As a flвneur, without any springe, I made the call, in, my not change one’s mind about (Lemos, 2009).
http://idgnow.uol.com.br/telecom/2008/08/14/brasil-tem-950-mil-
conexoes-a-internet-via-redes-3g-estima-accenture/
2. http://www.mundogeo.com.br/noticias-diarias.php
?id_noticia=4246
3.http://alertatotal.blogspot.com/2008/07/lula-insiste-no-
inconstitucional-chip.html
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Biography
Andrй Lemos is Associate Professor at Faculty of Communication at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBa). Lemos has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Universitй Renй Descartes, Sorbonne. He is the coordinator of the Cyberculture Center and the Cybercity Research Group at UFBa, and chief fact-finding everyone at the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). He has been a visiting egghead at University of Alberta and McGill University, Canada (2007-2008). He was President of the Brazilian Communication Programs Association (COMPУS).
