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A serie of ideas and real projects around Locative Media and Creativity. I am speaking about various projects born from the GPS Museum website and the art collective Transnational Temps. A serie of artworks mixing geolocation, activism, environment and cosmology.

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We currently working on the GPS Museum Website, a web portal with a selection of great locative media artworks and productions. You can navigate the links through a interactive map made with the speakingimage map tool. This website is the continuation of the GPS Museum Facebook page

visit the website

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Trash Alert!, a Transnational Temps art project for your mobile

Trash Alert! will be a opensource Android App dedicated to the geolocation of micro garbage dumps all around you. Please support the project on Goteo the Spanish opensource crowdfunding website.

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A Walk Through Time, a “Walking” iphone app.

I am currently working on a mobile phone app project with Geoff Ainscow from Los Angeles. We study now a iphone app where each of your steps is one million years during a one mile walk tracing the 4,600 million year the evolution of life on earth. In 1997, at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, the Walk Through Time exhibit was created for the opening experience of a five day meeting involving 350 scientist from around the world. Every foot of the one mile walk represents one million years of the evolution of life on Earth. 95 color, illustrative panels, describing the state of life at that time were spaced at various intervals. Starting 4,600 million years ago, at the beginning of the solar system, you walk a mile before reaching the present day and realize that the last 1/10 of an inch represents the 10,000 years of our civilization. This exhibit has been shown in many cities and continues to travel around the world. A book was published in 1998.  Today, the Walk moves into the high tech age with the development of this iPhone app.

walkthroughtime.org

As creative designer, the most important idea around the app is that you will have to walk for real to experience the 4,600 Millons years of evolution of life on earth. Each of your steps will be detected by the accelerometer and will move you forward 1 million years. We hope to  start the programming of the iphone app around October 2011.

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Un Alternate Reality Game, Safari Urbano

Hemos vuelto de un workshop “Safari Urbano” que hemos dado desde nuestro colectivo ecoartivista Transnational Temps en la facu de Bellas Artes de Poitiers en Francia, la caza ha sido buena !. Manejamos el workshop tanto en soporte papel y teléfono cómo en una versión potencial para móviles iphone y androide, desarrollo que podemos hacer perfectamente con plataformas abiertas de ARG. (alternate Reality Game)

descargar el pdf del mapa

El Juego: Penetra en tu reserva y sigue las pistas de caza marcadas en el mapa, tienes 60 minutos para fotografiar con tu móvil las especies en via de extinción.

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Sensodesign, design controled by sensors.

La imagen de síntesis es el interfaz entre el mundo sensible y el mundo inteligible, es el mar entre dos tierras. Partiendo de esta premisa podemos hacer una clasificación básica que mostraría dos grupos de gráfica: el de las representaciones que se encubren al modelo real, es decir que “falsean”, y el grupo de imágenes que, dialogando con el original, ofrecen una síntesis del mismo, además de una información extra que completa la descripción del modelo. Nosotros trabajamos en este segundo estadio.

the web design is changing during the seasons

Sensodesign simulated for the “Turismo de Andalucía” web portal

Sensodesign se define como un conjunto de estrategias que potencian el encuentro entre mundo sintético y mundo real, dando como resultado composiciones digitales “pilotadas” por lo que acontece en el espacio natural. Las composiciones se encuentran ligadas a un medio del que se obtienen las variables, éstas provienen de diferentes tipos de sensores (temperatura, nivel, movimiento, contaminación) y se convierten en condicionantes de la representación digital que vemos en la web. De esta forma, el mar “sintético” de nuestra pantalla se ve afectado por el oleaje de una playa de Gijón, o el cielo pixelado por la previsión de lluvias para mañana. El mundo digital de la pantalla dialoga con lo que acontece a su alrededor erigiéndose como creación live-media.

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Relative Geoloc. Positioning

The Relative Geoloc. Positioning is a creation we programmed for the Laboral Centro de Arte in 2006. The idea is simple, we catch the coordinates of a place and catch some random places all over the world to show the relative distance from the original point. This great piece of programming has been done by Iñaki Quesada. Have a look at this small video bellow…

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Kezako, a intuitive didactic tool to create and share knowledge

Inspired by the representation of the zodiacs, we created a interactive didactic tool called “Kezako”. This strange word is a french expression asking ” what is this ?”. Well, have a look at Piscis below, each white node is a audio comment and the links between nodes is the route. Just follow the routes, zoom in and out automatically or manually, and learn.

Our aim is to create a very simple interactive animation for people to learn about everyting we can explain with a high resolution picture and a voice. The idea is simple, we can create various audio nodes on a zoomable graphic and link each nodes between them to make a audio route. People just load the high resolution graphic and stream the audio nodes and navigate inside the picture.  If you get the editor, you can build your own Kezako audio routes on your pictures, just need a hig resolution graphic and a way to record your voice on the computer. 

In this picture upstairs, a Kezako user created a audio-guide to explain the Propulsion, the vital organs and the nutrition of a Fish. But if you want to explain the Velazquez painting ” Las Meninas”, go ahead.

Kezako applied to the Meninas from Velázquez

Kezako is better than editing a time consuming movie because our system is: really fast to build, lighter to send online, interactive with nodes and editable by the users in a very simple way. It can be a great tool for teachers, museums and educators, for everybody who wants to explain in a intuitive way.

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Smartphone Audio Guide for museums

A novative simple audio guide explained in this audio comment

This Smartphone Audio Guide proposal for museums consist in a software designed to build easily audio guides, managing a set of bricks containing a audio and a picture related to a masterpiece.

More than a brick, the module is a segment of a wall and let users represent their exhibition space with each segment, moving them with the finger in the screen and building a architecture. This simple software let users build virtually the real space of the exhibition.

Finally, the visitors can use the application created by the museum and get information for the masterpiece they want. Rolling over each segment, we can see a fast preview of the painting, picture or whatever we want. Clicking on on it, a audio player appear on the screen and let the visitors listen to the audio guide.

A simple hyper-navigation mode, let the visitor have a preview of all the master pieces at the same time.