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USC Mobile and Environmental Media Lab


The Mobile and Environmental Media Lab is currently exploring location-specific mobile storytelling. This…

Animism at e-flux
Posted 18 May 2012 | 11:40 am

Article: Hope for Future Cities
Posted 17 May 2012 | 3:04 pm

Article: Intel’s city of the future: sensors e verywhere
Posted 17 May 2012 | 3:00 pm

ETCentric:Google and Microsoft Research Teams Develop New Video Technologies
Posted 15 May 2012 | 5:23 pm

The Playable City Ideas Lab Brazil
Posted 15 May 2012 | 3:39 pm

Embedded papercraft objects are better than embedded digital objects

Responsibility has yet to be claimed for the beautiful papercraft sculptures that have mysteriously popped…

Cyborg Anthropology


Cyborg Anthropology takes the view that most of modern human life is a product of both human and non-human objects.…

The Super Creepy Valley
Posted 19 May 2012 | 5:11 pm

Self Directed Neuroplasticity
Posted 18 May 2012 | 9:49 pm

EEG
Posted 18 May 2012 | 9:23 pm

Hans Berger
Posted 18 May 2012 | 9:22 pm

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Posted 18 May 2012 | 9:05 pm

John Geraci


John Geraci has “spent the past seven years making cities better with web and mobile technologies.”…

Note To TED, Local Projects and DIYcity: Nobody Owns the Web (Not Even You)
Posted 6 March 2012 | 9:12 pm

My TEDxBigApple Talk [Video]
Posted 2 March 2012 | 9:15 pm

What Is Happening at johngeraci.com?
Posted 20 February 2012 | 5:16 pm

Read This Article To Understand What 2012 Is Going To Be About
Posted 30 December 2011 | 4:54 pm

Drones: Coming Soon To The Skies Near You
Posted 14 December 2011 | 3:31 pm

Dokobots: findable, sharable virtual playthings embedded in real space

Dokobots looks to be a great little geogame, with clever mechanics that push pervasive location-based participatory…

Ambient Storytelling for Vehicle-Driver Interaction

This project explores how in-car sensor systems can be integrated with cloud computing and social media services to make possible new modes of storytelling, interaction and engagement.

Subtlemob creator Duncan Speakman on “framing everyday realities”

Duncan Speakman’s Subtlemob project, “As if it were the last time,” will be taking place…

American Music

“American Music” is an iPhone and Android application that uses contextual geolocation data as a kind of musical notation, creating a generative soundtrack to accompany everything from cross-country trips to short drives to the mall.

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.

Try to remain invisible: Subtlemob

Duncan Speakman’s As if it were for the last time is a soundwalk and street performance wherein audiences are “invited to download an MP3 and turn up at a secret location to listen to the track at a specified time.”

Locative media resources

A collection of supplementary readings and resources for my presentation, “Locative Media and Responsive Environments.”

Locative Media and Responsive Environments

This presentation explores the evolution and trajectory of ubiquitous computing technologies that enable designers to embed media artifacts and computational systems in physical space.