LOCATIVE MEDIA ARTS

 The following is an incomplete gathering of locative media works that engage with space and place, categorized broadly.

Annotated Space

Urban Tapestries was one of the first annotated space projects:
http://urbantapestries.net/

34 North 118 West: Mining the Urban Landscape
http://34n118w.net/34N/

Jake Barton’s City of Memory
http://www.cityofmemory.org/map/index.php

Projects from the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Concordia University):
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/research-creation/web-projects
http://www.mapping.montrealmosaic.com
http://returningthevoices.ca

Teri Rueb
http://terirueb.net

Walking tour of Gloucester Harbour
http://gloucester.harborwalk.org/

http://walking-the-edit.net/ (walking makes the movie…)

Wikiupedia: Augmented Reality and Indigenous Stories (not yet launched)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/augmented-reality-vancouver-indigenous

Gaming: Location-based games and augmented reality. City as Playground.
 
Zombies, Run! https://zombiesrungame.com/

Blast Theory:
Uncle Roy All Around You 
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/projects/uncle-roy-all-around-you/
​Can You See Me Now 
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/projects/can-you-see-me-now/

Google Maps/Google Earth Projects

Airborne
https://vimeo.com/40647852

A Street with a View
http://benkinsley.com/street-with-a-view/

GPS-focused projects
 
Masaki Fujihata
Impressing Velocity https://vimeo.com/25246843
http://www.field-works.net/
 
Trash Track aims to make one more aware of what happens to garbage: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/
 
Amsterdam Real Time
http://realtime.waag.org/

Jeremy Wood’s Drawing with Satellites
http://www.jeremywood.net/

Transborder Immigration Tool
http://www.arte-util.org/projects/transborder-immigrant-tool/

Julian Oliver’s Border Bumping
http://borderbumping.net/

Apps about walking/wandering/getting lost

Indeterminate Hikes
http://www.ecoarttech.net/project/indeterminate-hike/

Mark Shepard’s Serendipitor http://serendipitor.net/site/
 
Drift by Broken City Lab
http://www.brokencitylab.org/drift/

Hybrids of cinema/theatre/relational art

http://neworldtheatre.com/portfolio-item/landline/ (used SMS messaging to connect to another audience member in another city)

Blast Theory (pioneers of locative cinema)
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/projects/my-one-demand/
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/projects/a-machine-to-see-with/

Site-specific interactive storytelling

https://sixtyfourflood.com/

https://bear71vr.nfb.ca/ (Fantastic documentary project!)

https://www.nfb.ca/film/fort_mcmoney_vote_jim_rogers/

Alternate forms of mapping

James Bridle’s Balloon Mapping
http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/portfolio/project/balloon-mapping/

Sensory Maps and Smell Maps by Kate McLean
http://sensorymaps.com/
 
Biomapping and Emotional Maps by Christian Nold
http://www.biomapping.net/

For more projects:

GPS Museum
http://gpsmuseum.eu/engine/
 
National Film Board’s Interactive Division
https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/