Today is the first day of the New Media Consortium's New England meeting.
First we had a meeting of the Horizon Project group. The discussion has been excellent, covering a wide variety of topics. Phil Long has been blogging this.
I wanted to note the question of augmented reality and education, which hasn't taken off yet. Projects like YellowArrow, 34N 118W, and the stolpersteins have laid the groundwork for the wild matrix that comes into being when we geolocate digitally networked information.
What storytelling emerges when we can pin pieces down to spaces, and objects?
What are the politics of competing layers of digital content? Who owns tags, and where will they be contested?
Will the Situationist notion of derive appear through RFID, as we walk through a town and create a new geography?
What student projects? What faculty assignments? Imagine: wander through a space (garden, factory, city, arboretum) and find cached information linked to specific sites. Work on them, share results, upload to space.
We had great conversations about this subject during the summer Blogwalk in Austria.
Cyprien quietly reminds us, largely USAians, to pay attention to the rest of the world! Personal note: I'm trying to figure out how to deepen my research and collaboration network outside the US.
Ruben recommends humility. How to learn from those outside the academy? How do we let go of control?
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