34. Walk Through Time!
Walking Big History through Locative Media
A Presentation by !
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Fred Adam !
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Media Artist and teacher!
at the University of Murcia
Spain!
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ubik2.com / gpsmuseum.eu!
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info@ubik2.com
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36. Walk Through Time!
fast introduction to Locative Media
TECHNICAL VIEW:
associating digital media to
real places
SENSORS Displacement of the body in space
Tagging TrackingGPS
OUR VIEW
Experiencing knowledge in the real world
with the mind and body
37. Walk Through Time!
The innards of the app
What the market actually does!
with the pedometer
1 - count your steps during your trainning
2 - estimate the calories you burn
38. What we do with the pedometer:
1- Defining a time-scale for each step
Walk Through Time!
The innards of the app - Sensors
1 step = 1 MY
2 - associating media to the steps
3 - Sliding on a digital timeline
Travel through time on Earth
by walking
39. What we do with the GPS:
1- Share the
intimate
experience
of the walk
on the social
networks.
Walk Through Time!
The innards of the app - GPS
40. Walk Through Time!
The innards of the app - understanding Time-Scales
Most of all, Locative Media can produce:
An understanding of very large
and small scales of time and space
experimenting the relative distances
between events or elements
41. Walk Through Time!
Beyond the WTT Time: traveling in space-lines
Walking:
1 step = 100Y (civilization)
1 step = 10.000Y (specie)
1 step = 1 MY (Earth History)
1 step = 1 LY
in Time:
1 step = 1 KM (country)
1 step = 100 KM (earth core)
1 step = 1 CM (apple)
1 step = 1 NM (atom)
in Space:
42. Walk Through Time!
Beyond the WTT Time: traveling in space-lines
Walking:
walk in time-scale
walkinspace-scale
shifting between
Time and Space
43. Walk Through Time!
Beyond the WTT Time: traveling in space-lines
Walking:
in Space: 1 step = 10 KM
A 637 steps walk into the core of Earth
44. Walk Through Time!
Beyond the WTT Time: traveling in space-lines
Walking on the rings of Saturn
in Space: 1 step = 100 KM
A 800-step walk along Saturn's rings
45. Walk Through Time!
Beyond the WTT Time: traveling in space-lines
Walking inside an atom:
in Space: 1 step = 1 Nano
Experiencing the macrocosm and microcosm by walking
Crossing the Milky Way:
in Space: 1 step = 1 LY