Another City for Another Life: the unforeseen games of the city of the future
ARGs, pervasive games, and location-based social games echo and reiterate a range of earlier experiments in ambient and locative art. Graffiti, sticker art, mail art, and other kinds of analog methods for creating distributed narratives paved the way for the kinds of practices that are today exploding in number and purpose thanks to ubiquitous computing and the real-time web. Lettrism and Situationism redefined urban space as a canvas for experimentation, play, and collaborative production.
No File: Brown
No File: Brown uses the physical space of the 2010 ELO conference’s venue and surrounding area as a site for an interactive narrative. Participants engage with the project via standard cell phone SMS messages or through downloadable iPhone/Android applications.