exhibitionists and voyeurs

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exhibitionists and voyeurs

• human communication patterns and their impact on
  locative media
• Chris Heathcote
• http//www.anti-mega.com

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traditional locative media

• creating public annotations in space is not new
• quashed only by private ownership of space

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cave drawings
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flags
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graffiti
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toilet wall
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stickers
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carving and scratching
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envisioning future locative media
Hotel Farm, Ben Katchor McSweeneys Quarterly
Concern 13
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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 many
• public anonymity, private identity

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the few create for many

• users vs. leechers
• 2 active for a community to form
• is leeching a bad thing?

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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

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digital advantages

• the space is infinite
• limited by visualisation and filtering
• can implement personal, private and public space

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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 scale
• movement of software from the Internet to
  hinternets and localised darknets

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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

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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

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thank you
chris_at_anti-mega.com
presentation available from http//www.anti-mega.c
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