Locative Media & The City

In summation, Id like to thank everyone for a wonderful semester. A lot of great ideas were flung around, and I think I got a fantastically rich learning experience from our time together.

Where does that leave me with Locative Media? I have been thinking that locative media could be most powerful when considered in tandem with other art practices. For example, my studies in Tactical media in conjunction with locative media might be an interesting way to make an new and interesting artistic statements. Locative media is not only valuable in theory, but also in practice.

The interesting things that I picked up from this class are as follows:

• Cognitive Mapping and psychogeography. How Physical spaces effect a humans perception of their environment.
• Mapping in general. A map can say more about a space than just telling us where things are. We can learn a great deal from making our own maps of not only concrete spaces, but ideas as well. Interesting things happen when we meld the two.
• Simply stated : "Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
• Fouccalt helped me to figure out that I'm not as paranoid as I ought to be.
• Flaneurrey and dereiving is a very rewarding experience. I will never think of my meanderings about a city in quite the same light after taking this class.
• Finally - the City is my canvas!

This is a very tentative list that has a lot of room for additions. However, my experiences have also cut a little deeper into my psyche than can be put into a blog. Thank you to everyone who has added to an enriching and rewarding learning experience!

-Chris