locative media
Saturday afternoon, a group of Omnibus readers, WNYC listeners, and assorted unbuilt city enthusiasts gathered in Bryant Park to listen to Museum of the Phantom City designers Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder talk about how their app works, what happens when architects collaborate with app developers, and their curatorial process.
The app, thanks to Irene… 
11 03 09 • by Rachel Aland • architectural history, iPhone, live event, locative media, meet-up, mobile media, public art, recap, urban exploration
People are pretty psyched about the Museum of the Phantom City, the iPhone app that Brett Snyder and Irene Cheng developed and discussed with us here. So we're going to get together with Brett, Irene and our WNYC friends this Saturday, October 31, to explore the app and talk about…
10 26 09 • by Urban Omnibus • iPhone, locative media, manhattan, meet-up, mobile media, public art, to do, urban exploration, WNYC
This week, Museum of the Phantom City designers Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder talked about unbuilt city visions and app inspiration with us. We now have word that Irene's appearance on Morning Edition with Soterios Johnson is set for Monday morning, October 26. So tune in and get your phantom on with NPR...
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Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder share the inspiration behind their iPhone app and pose questions sparked by their research. Read their story and then go tour the unbuilt city.
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Remember when Jesse Shapins and Brian House showed us how citizens of all stripes could magically morph into "critical media artists," using a handy little experiential dictionary as a point of departure? Well now Jesse has teamed up with Kara Oehler, Ann Heppermann and James Burns and the…
10 15 09 • by Urban Omnibus • art, collaborative documentary, elsewhere, locative media, maps, public art
Yesterday we joined business and tech leaders from around the world (we were a little under-dressed, to say the least) at IBM's Smarter Cities forum. IBM's President and CEO Sam Palmisano kicked things off by explaining why cities are a focus area within IBM's broader Smarter Planet initiative. Sure, the…
Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder are launching a mobile media project this weekend that allows people to browse proposed, visionary, but unbuilt designs for New York City on your iPhone. (Reason #172 why I love having an iPhone.) Museum of the Phantom City: OtherFutures is a project Cheng…
In 2003, as a grad student at NYU, I created a site called Neighbornode, which was a series of bulletin boards for local neighborhood residents to log on to and talk to each other in cities. The site was very simple, and to be totally honest a bit of a hack (I was never a fabulous coder). But the idea alone was enough to attract a good amount of attention and interest from...
08 19 09 • by John Geraci • communication, locative media, maps, news, opinion, social media, the future of news, web 2.0
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Artists and educators Jesse Shapins and Brian House discuss new directions in urban media arts, connecting maps, dictionaries and the tools of design education.
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