Ars Electronica Festival · 2008
Loca: Set To Discoverable
by Mika Raento, Theo Humphries, John Evans, Drew Hemment
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2008
Mika Raento, Theo Humphries, John Evans and Drew Hemment's “Loca: Set To Discoverable” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2008, category Hybrid Art.
“Loca” is a hybrid art/research project on grassroots, pervasive surveillance which aims to equip people to deal with the ambiguity of locative media environments. It combines art installation, pervasive design, software engineering, activism, hardware hacking, SMS poetry, sticker art and ambient performance.
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