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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
