The e-magazine Artnodes has a themed issue on “Locative media and artistic practice” .

The term locative media refers generally to the communication technologies involving location; ie, those providing a link or information relating to a specific place via devices such as GPS, mobile telephones or PDAs, laptop computers or wireless networks. These media are now fully integrated into our daily lives and lead to a whole series of social, professional and cultural routines. Likewise, they have catalysed a certain level of curiosity and concern both in terms of artistic practice and academic study. In this issue of Artnodes, we want to contribute to the academic debate on locative media. We focus specifically on artistic projects that use these media for distinct aims, from political activism to games, or the different ways of appropriating these technologies. This allows us to see, from a conceptual perspective, that all these projects share an idea of the notion of space: how it is ordered, how it is represented, or what kind of social interaction takes place there. These are the underlying questions in each and every one of these locative media projects.

With:

01 Locative Media and Artistic Practice: Explorations on the Ground. Presentation
Gemma San Cornelio (coord.)

02 Location-specific art practices that challenge the traditional conception of mapping
Olga Paraskevopoulou, Dimitris Charitos, Charalampos Rizopoulos

03 Parallel networks and detection mappings: social and artistic practices with locative media
Efraín Foglia

04 Augmenting Public Space and Authoring Public Art: The Role of Locative Media
Anthony Townsend

05 Some Musings on Iterations and Encounters – Re: CALL CUTTA(s)
Tina Bastajian

06 Hybrid Playground: Incorporating Videogame Tools and Strategies into Children’s Playgrounds
Clara Boj, Diego Díaz