Regine at the wonderfully eclectic We Make Money Not Art has a really interesting post on another digital graffiti project in New York.
An old train line through Lower Manhattan, forms the boundary between the Polish Chasidic Jewish community and the rest of NY in the early part of last century. While the physical boundary has disappeared and the Jews dispersed, the psychological boundary is still there and this is what the project commemorates.
At various locations along the way, visitors can “click” on a semacode by taking a photo with a camera phone. This links them to audio content (in Chinese, Spanish, Yiddish and English) which tells them about that location.
Visitors can also leave their own audio impressions for others to pick up and listen to.
Another great example of how the mobile phone is being used like a physical world mouse to access location-based digital information.
As an aside, I wonder why, if the US is considered at least one or two years behind Europe in cell phone culture, that they’re so far ahead in thinking about locative media? It’s nothing to do with technology, as stuff like the Yellow Arrow project and Blockies use pretty low tech location technology.
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