The workshop introduced the participant for the creation of mobile phone applications with the goal to promote a reflection about the concepts of the art & technology field related to locative media. The studied and developed tools were: GPS location, media insertion (videos, audio and animations) played in the phone through the GPS and the creation and editing of the content in the free software tools Gimp and Audacity. The project was developed through the tool walkingtools created by Brett Stalbaum and Cicero Silva. Workshop activities also included walks around the campus and the city.
The activities were free of charge and open to public participation through previous enrollment.
COORDINATORS
Cicero Silva is a researcher and professor of media, art and digital communications and coordinator of Software Studies Group in Brazil. He is currently a fellow researcher at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) of University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He has written the book The Explorers: Open Source and Free Software in Brazil (with Jane de Almeida, in press, MIT Press).
Brett Stalbaum is an artist, professor and coordinator of the interdisciplinary program in Computer and Arts in the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), and has developed countless projects in the field of locative media, mentioned in books such as New Media Art (Mark Tribe, Taschen), among others.
TARGET
interested in art and technology, mobility, cellphones, locative media, students of communication, arts, design, media, computers, electrical engineering, advertising, journalism, radio and television, among others.
PREREQUISITE
Basic computer operation knowledge (Windows), and softwares such as Word, Excel, Power Point and some imaging software, notions of some programming language (PHP) and markup languages, such as HTML, among others. There was no need for consistent knowledge or programming skills, but it is necessary that the participant has seen a computer code and understands how it works.
DATE AND TIME
20th of july, 2009 8h-13h | 15h-20h
21st of july,2009 8h-13h
Duration: 15h
PLACE
FAFICH (Faculty of Philosophy and Humans Studies) and the surroundings of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
