"Drawing with chalk and the aid of a GPS receiver, Pete Gomes outlines shadows, persons, trash bags, etc.; marks territories and defines borders for things both temporary and permanent. All while dutifully chalking latitude and longitude. In these often large scale and impermanent drawings, he points to the variable nature of position over time, unseen power structures and the arbitrary relationship between the physical world and the coordinate system."
From: Locative Media: A Brief Bibliography And Taxonomy Of Gps-Enabled Locative Media, Julian Bleecker and Jeff Knowlton for Leonardo Journal
VIDEO LECTURE 1 TATE MODERN 2003
Here is a presentation of work at the Tate. An interesting overview of work at that time. A day long symposium and I'm in section 4.
VIDEO LECTURE 2 BOSTON 2005
Lecture in Emerson College, Boston in 2005 as part of Turbulence
I was lucky enough to be in the midst of a wide range of creative practitioners, mainly across Europe, who were exploring the, then, emerging field of Locative Media. The range of works made from 2001 [Work,Place.]to 2006 [Littoral Walk]were rooted in these emerging technologies and ideas of: cinema;mobility; location; space; and technology.
From very early on I began to make performance work that explored notions of location. I was not really interested in the technology itself. During this entire period, I was teaching Communications and Film and Video at the Architectural Association in London. So for me, much of this work made was embedded in ideas in and around performance and architecture. I was exploring notions of 'location', being 'on location' always believing that this work I was making was linked in some way to development and spatialization of Cinema; the oncoming world of cinema and mobiility. In 1997, in a mini manifesto the mutantfilm web site declared an intention for 'Cinema for Commuting' and this fusing of navigation, mapping, and cinema were preoccupations during this period. Performance in many forms (both actions and narrative drama) formed the core of these explorations, that were too complex and new (for me) to explore in any other way. Many of these ideas and themes were explored in a presentation lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on 'Locative Media and Performance' in 2004, which generated the performance drawing at ICA "Here, here... and here"
VIDEO TATE MODERN 2003 This gives a good overview of work at that time. A day long symposium and I'm in section 4.
From Wikipedia:
"Locative Media are media of communication bound to a location. They are digital media applied to real places and thus triggering real social interactions. While mobile technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), laptop computers and mobile phones enable locative media, they are not the goal for the development of projects in this field."
Rather:
"Locative media is many things: A new site for old discussions about the relationship of consciousness to place and other people. A framework within which to actively engage with, critique, and shape a rapid set of technological developments. A context within which to explore new and old models of communication, community and exchange. A name for the ambiguous shape of a rapidly deploying surveillance and control infrastructure." (Russell, 2004)
