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Loca: Set To Discoverable
Mika Raento,
Theo Humphries,
John Evans,
Drew Hemment
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“Loca” is a hybrid art/research project on grassroots, pervasive surveillance which aims to equip people to deal with the ambiguity of locative media environments. It combines art installation, pervasive design, software engineering, activism, hardware hacking, SMS poetry, sticker art and ambient performance.
“Loca” exposes the disconnect between people and the trails of digital identities they leave behind and enables people to explore pervasive surveillance environments in a performative way. A person walking through the city center hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert, they see a message reading: “We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave your network device in the air.” “Loca” engages people by responding to urban semantics, the social meanings of particular places: “You walked past a flower shop and spent 30 minutes in the park, are you in love?"
For participants, the experience of “Loca” is intangible, it is to do with what is not seen. Stickers are provided to make visible the traces of digital identities. The “Loca”-stickers enable people to record the presence of a uniquely named device, and so become a small piece of surveillance code, introducing an element of participatory, urban play.
Links: http://loca-lab.org
“Loca” exposes the disconnect between people and the trails of digital identities they leave behind and enables people to explore pervasive surveillance environments in a performative way. A person walking through the city center hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert, they see a message reading: “We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave your network device in the air.” “Loca” engages people by responding to urban semantics, the social meanings of particular places: “You walked past a flower shop and spent 30 minutes in the park, are you in love?"
For participants, the experience of “Loca” is intangible, it is to do with what is not seen. Stickers are provided to make visible the traces of digital identities. The “Loca”-stickers enable people to record the presence of a uniquely named device, and so become a small piece of surveillance code, introducing an element of participatory, urban play.
Links: http://loca-lab.org
Supported by the British Council, Arts Council England, Helsinki University, Salford University, AHRC
John Evans (UK). Currently his work focuses on investigating social interactions with mobile devices and extensive research into notions of “sharing experience” and privacy. He is a cofounder of 3eyes Design Consultancy, http://3eyes.co.uk
Drew Hemment (UK), Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster, a major new interdisciplinary research center at Lancaster University. He has curated numerous international exhibitions on urban media and made a major contribution to the emergence of locative media. Since 1995 he has been the founder and director of Futuresonic, an urban festival of art, music and ideas and is the founder and director of Future Everything.
Theo Humphries (UK) frequently conveys his academic work through “cute” media (such as video, or playful objects), yet sinister currents flow beneath this amiable exterior: surveillance, obsolescence, addiction, urban-decay, sex. http://3eyes.co.uk
Mika Raento (Fl) is a founder and lead developer of Jaiku (http://jaiku.com), a phone book that displays the real-time presence and location of your contacts. He is the main force behind the ContextPhone context-aware mobile application platform.
Drew Hemment (UK), Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster, a major new interdisciplinary research center at Lancaster University. He has curated numerous international exhibitions on urban media and made a major contribution to the emergence of locative media. Since 1995 he has been the founder and director of Futuresonic, an urban festival of art, music and ideas and is the founder and director of Future Everything.
Theo Humphries (UK) frequently conveys his academic work through “cute” media (such as video, or playful objects), yet sinister currents flow beneath this amiable exterior: surveillance, obsolescence, addiction, urban-decay, sex. http://3eyes.co.uk
Mika Raento (Fl) is a founder and lead developer of Jaiku (http://jaiku.com), a phone book that displays the real-time presence and location of your contacts. He is the main force behind the ContextPhone context-aware mobile application platform.