project title
Locative Media (Lecture)
project description
This lecture will focus on Teletaxi, a project initiated by the Year Zero One collective. This ongoing project that initially took place in Toronto, Canada in the Autumn of 2003. Teletaxi is a site-specific media art exhibition in a taxicab. A taxi is outfitted with an interactive touch screen that displays video, animations, music, and information triggered by an onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver which allows the displayed artwork to change depending on where the taxi is in the city. With the combination of the media/GPS technology, the mobile environment, and the passenger/audience inside the cab, the seven artists involved in the initial Teletaxi exhibition were offered a unique set of possibilities for showing their work, both technically and thematically.
Teletaxi also exposed interactive media art to a "captive" audience, presenting works that explore notions of intimacy, mapping, subterranean space, simulated cities, information architecture, data-visualisation, public interventions, and surveillance.
The talk will present an overview of the Teletaxi project and other recent projects, including user interface challenges, curatorial challenges, content creation issues, the advantages and disadvantages of this method of delivery, and the projects' relevance within a psychogeographic framework.
The presenter will also overview other locative media projects she has been involved in, and provide a historical context for the current work she is presenting.
links
www.year01.com/transmedia2002/
michelle.kasprzak.ca/MK_CV.pdf
www.year01.com/teletaxi/index.html
www.year01.com/forum.htm
michelle.kasprzak.ca
www.psychogeography.net
www.iloveaparade.net
