ISSN 1695-5951

Node "Locative Media and Artistic Practice: Explorations on the Ground"

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

Anthony Townsend (atownsend@iftf.org)
Research Director, Technology Horizons Program. Institute for the Future
Abstract

Locative media remain a useful frame for understanding how collaborative sensing will broadly empower groups to author alternative narratives of urban public space. The case of Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls is used to describe this process in the context of a recent large public art work.





Keywords
Waterfalls, cities, public art, social media, urbanism
Submission date: October 2008
Accepted in: October 2008
Published in: December 2008



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