Locative Media and the Politics of Space
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Hybrid Spatial Experiences
Presentation Title:
- Locative Media and the Politics of Space
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Abstract:
The paper describes two recent locative walks constructed in Athens using the Empedia Software suite developed for iphone and Android smartphones. The projects were large scale collaborative workshops involving a broad range of disciplines to tease out the nature of politics in relation to city space in Athens. One workshop: Codes of Disobedience and Disfunctionality used graffiti as a trigger for public interaction and the deconstructing of the political codes behind public manifestations of resistence to the neo-liberal financial crisis and its supposed remedies. The second walk Urban Digital Narratives addressed the issue of displacement in the newly gentrified Gazi area of the city and created a varied portrait of an inner city area under great pressure from a changing economy and the presence of a variet y of ethnic communities. The authoer will ask how effective can locative media be both a representing these issues and laying them before an interested proactive audience.