Mídias locativas: arte e ativismo no mapeamento da cidade

Abstract

This study investigates the locative media, a trend that deals with the implications of using technical devices to generate digital content associating with places. Particularly, we emphasize locative media projects for artistic or activist purposes, that explores mapping practices based on communication, networks and mobile devices. The main objective is to discuss how the mapping process in locative media projects helps to understand spaces and places onto the contemporary context of cities. In a way that, we analyze some examples that reinforce two characteristics of locative media: the mapping of traces and the mapping as a process. Thus, locative media can be a rich field of research on how spaces are perceived through the mediation of maps and digital technologies.