Geogad is your personal mobile tour guide. Geogad delivers the same historical and local information that you would get from a tour guide but delivered over the Internet or downloaded to your favorite mobile device for FREE.

Skip reading tons of guide books, and avoid stuffy guided tours with limited schedules. Instead listen and view Geogad’s detailed local information. Focus on the places and stories that interest you at the time that is convenient for you. Enjoy your vacation with Geogad.

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A system of devices enables graffiti artists to create and geo-tag music in the urban space with real spray cans.

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This is a new website where you can post content about places you’ve been. At any location on the planet, you can post a blog, podcast, video, wiki, or a photo telling the community what you find interesting about that place. You can also start a location based discussion through the map forums. In addition, you have the ability to maintain buddylists, keep track of your favorite posts, filter the map based on location and content tags, send private messages to other users, and last but not least you can post comments.

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SoundAboutPhilly is a new series of free, customizable sound-seeing tours told by “real” Philadelphians. The stories are accompanied by dynamic mapping, audio, text and vivid photography that provide a more intimate illustration of Philadelphia and can help you find your way around once you arrive.

Concentrated on insider, lesser-known Philadelphia experiences, SoundAboutPhilly combines interesting tales, fun facts and lively music to tell not only stories from the city’s rich past, but also its vibrant present. You’ll hear about our nation’s founding and the heroes and heroines who struggled for freedom centuries ago, but you’ll soon discover that Philadelphia is a city that is not stuck in the past. Dynamic mapping is included with each tour segment which indicates where the segment begins. If you like what you hear, send the tour on to a friend.

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Life: a user’s manual’ is a series of public performances and online mappings that examine the hidden stories captured by private wireless CCTV streams and how they intersect with the visible world around us.

The title ‘Life: a user’s manual’ is taken from a novel of the same name by Georges Perec. In his novel, he peels away the outer wall of a ten story building in Paris and proceeds to describe the interior of each apartment and the stories of its inhabitants. As observers, we are led through a sequence of readings and views as we mentally navigate from one apartment to the next.

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Demor is a location based 3D audio shooting game which is equally enjoyable for both blind as sighted players. The main aim of the game is to entertaine, but it is also an attempt to improve the emancipation of the blind and visually impaired and their integration in the ‘sighted’ world. Demor is a proof of concept based on both theoretical and practical research.

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Conceived as a co-production between The Labyrinth Project, ZKM (Center for Art And Media) and cultural historian, Norman Klein, Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986 combines a database detective story with a contemporary city symphony and a metanarrative reflection on storytelling in this new medium. The story’s setting is a three-mile radius near downtown Los Angeles, a city known for not having a center. This ethnically complex location is documented through archival stills and films and through contemporary images that either reproduce or evoke them.

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is a street activity proposed for the site of Times Square, NYC. Employing mobile phone text messaging, it focuses on increasing personal contribution and interaction to the experience of this public space. Individuals will participate with one another as they tag designated areas or “nodes” by displaying their inscription. Promoting a game-like spirit, players challenge opponents in a battle in which the emerging victor prevails with the tag.

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Mobile Scout is a global public art project that collects audio narratives of your local surroundings, personal rituals, and public sightings. Using your mobile phone, you leave a voice message of your observations with the Mobile Scout Ranger, our automated quirky naturalist.

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Tate Modern’s Bafta-award winning Multimedia Guide is a unique way for visitors to find out more about the art on display. Holding a small computer as you walk through the galleries, you can see videos and still images that provide additional context for the art, take part in interactive games, listen to commentaries, and play art-related music. Tate was the first museum in the UK to trial such a system, back in 2002, and now becomes the first to introduce it as a fully-fledged tour.

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