Besides bio-technology, mobile communication is now the prime technology that manages to spark utopian hopes. Mobile phones, wireless networking, satellites, are the objects of desire for a media-savvy class which holds on to the idea that new media can make you money, and might even enhance the democratic potentials of a globalised world. As a response, artists are exploring the emerging field of ‘Locative Media’ which combine the mobility of the device, with the fact that the mobile user can be tracked and located. Drew Hemment is an AHRB research fellow in Creative Technologies at the University of Salford, and director of the futuresonic festival of electronic music and media arts, established 1995 in Manchester. Marc Tuters is an independent curator and artist working in the emergent domains of wireless community and 'collaborative cartography'.
Project presentations by artists Jason Harlan (us), Teri Rueb (us) and Ben Russell (uk).
Armin Medosch is a writer, curator and artist. He co-founded the online magazine Telepolis in 1996.
In cooperation with the Locative Media Lab www.locative.org and Futuresonic '04 futuresonic. com.