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Are you all familiar with www.geocaching.com Sometime when I am out there running with my Garmin I feel like a pirate searching for treasure. Play on! Glen -----Original Message----- From: Curating digital art - www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/ [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of yasir Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:59 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] locative? tracked! In terms of theory I think it might be useful to let some new geographers speak. Imaginary geographies, phantasies on the one hand and geographical imaginations in geographical timewarps, and ethnoscapes of people and media migrating or streaming or bouncing across the globe forming new mixes of things, on the other. Identities, well okay, as labels. In terms of technology it is the capability, the gps, of being in constant remote communicationn with entities which are both social and physical people or animals or objects. Every object becomes a space probe but inside the defining sphere of the gps - anything beyond is space exploration and attempting to communicate with aliens. Combined with the internet this capability combines with the social streams and corpuscles and flows of the internet. Now the probes can be made to do things like have realtions with other probes. Coordinate act together, and form relations, both old and new, have an architecture, a social setup. Here is the where the qustion mark is. For example behaviour, action or commands on the internet may have a counterpart among the gps probes and feelers as they are in the non-virual world, whether deliberate or not. there is social cognitive play between the virtual/nonvirtual and the global/spacial. In another vein these are forms of feedback circuitry to our existing social and information and even biological systems. Answers and examples are out there. But the point of the email is to link the =geography, place and space= of social geography with gps and the net, with just one reference to surveillance.