QUESTION:

In relation to the Internet of things, explore the manner in which (and the extent to which) locative media can advance public knowledge regarding the distribution of objects?

key points/ arguments

• instead of sticking to SL, belief that real world can be like SL where everything can be more changeable and adaptable...

see Poetics of Augmented Reality

• technology: deterministic or instrumental (ie. technology is entirely neutral)
  

locative media examples

http://www.pacmanhattan.com/

http://www.milkproject.net/

http://www.traces-of-fire.org/

http://www.blinkenlights.de/

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee.html
(iSee: finding a route with least surveillance cameras)