“For­get Loca­tive Media” presented by Shepard

Symposium:

• ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn

• For­get Loca­tive Media

• Mark Shepard

Venue(s):

• Sabanci Center, Istanbul, Turkey

• Panel: Beyond Locative: Media Arts after the Spatial Turn

  With the in­tro­duc­tion by Apple and Google of Lo­ca­tion-Based Ser­vices (LBS) on smart phones world­wide, Loca­tive Media has rapidly been main­lined to the masses. For­merly a term that re­ferred to a loose col­lec­tion of media art prac­tices that ex­per­i­mented with lo­ca­tion as a con­tex­tual fil­ter for media  sit­u­ated within or dis­trib­uted across urban or rural en­vi­ron­ments, today Loca­tive Media has come to con­note any soft­ware ap­pli­ca­tion that fil­ters con­tent based on what is “nearby.” While some would at­tempt to re­cu­per­ate the term for dis­course in the arts and hu­man­i­ties, look­ing for the “be­yond”, “after” or “post-” Loca­tive in an at­tempt to the­o­rize an his­tor­i­cal pe­riod of media art prac­tice in order to lay claim to “the next big thing”, oth­ers might argue that it’s time to sim­ply FOR­GET Loca­tive Media – that the cre­ative, the­o­ret­i­cal and aes­thetic pos­si­bil­i­ties of lo­ca­tion as con­tex­tual fil­ter have been ex­hausted – and that in order to en­gage the broader and more sub­tle nu­ances of con­tem­po­rary urban, ex­ur­ban and rural en­vi­ron­ments, new ap­proaches to con­text are nec­es­sary.

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