What are locative media (part 2)?
So not all local projects are locative. A microtransmitter broadcasting some iPods’ playlist is not a locative media project. Unless that playlist would consist of field recordings done at other places, and broadcasted here with the intention to create some heightened or particular experience of the place we are. (- just making things up here, but probably such a project exists somewhere)
More problematic: the canonical
Familiar Stranger project would then not be a locative media project. Because the whole thing is not about location - it is about proximity! Yes, the projects informs your experience of places you share with strangers that are less strange then you knew or that become less strange over time - but the project is not centered around location at all. It is centered around the user of the application - wherever that user happens to be. I would say location is only a secondary informative context of the Familiar Stranger project. Familiar Stranger is a Proximity Media project, as are a lot of Bluetooth projects that run on phones.
Tags: locative media, hybrid world