Locative Media as Remix

While data-driven art is not new, recent developments in technical, artistic and social spheres have coalesced to produce new opportunities for artists and activists to remix data with space and place to form locationally specific political critiques of great power and flexibility. Through processes of remixing multiple data sources within specific spatial, social and political contexts, it is argued that locative media practices offer critical understandings of space and place. It is proposed that the consideration of these emergent practices as remix offers an effective method for unpacking the complex interrelationships between location, technology and data and their associated artistic and activist practices. This convergence of data and physical space is situated within an artistic tradition of utilizing data as a tool of political and artistic critique, a tradition that underpins and informs current work. Artistic projects, approaches and methods in this contested area are identified which point toward future directions in locative remix.