We just added the final projects to Vague Terrain 06: Locative last night and are thrilled to have this issue complete and back online. Locative (launched in June 2007) was an important issue for us as it was our first experience with a guest curator and our local peer (and now good friend) David McCallum did a fantastic job. David showcased a thoughtful range of projects that carefully considered mobile technology as a medium for creative exploration. The issue includes work by: Context Photography (whose work is pictured above), Evamaria Trischak, Jeremy Hight, Knifeandfork, Marc Tuters, Michael Lenczner, Patricia Rodriguez, Sawako and ssim-el. An excerpt from David's introduction to the work:
What changes when we take it with us? The parameter is space, or place. The term locative, in many ways, gives one the impression of a device with some artificial intelligence that allows the little thing—if I'm forgiven to personify our cute gadgets—to know something about the space in which it's situated or moving through. Of course, artificial intelligence, especially confined to the current power of mobile processors, is nowhere near smart enough to truly understand anything about space. It cannot contextualise the same way that you or I would if placed in a foreign space. What it does do is give us information based on the space according to the parameters and design that we've set up for it. It doesn't give us information outside of the media we've chosen, but this still allows for a great amount of surprise and discovery.
Vague Terrain 06: Locative is archived here.
