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

traditional locative media creating public annotations in space is not new quashed only by private ownership of space

cave drawings

flag s

graffiti

toilet wall

stickers

carving and scratching

envisioning future locative media Hotel & Farm, Ben Katchor McSweeney’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 many public anonymity, private identity

the few create for many users vs. leechers 2% active for a community to form is leeching a bad thing?

visibilit y 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 scale movement 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

conclusion s 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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