What is GPS Art?
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What is GPS Art?An Exploration of Artistic Paths
Jeff MollApril 10, 2007
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What is GPS Art?
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What is Art?“If an artist says it’s art, it’s art.”
– Roberta Smith
http://arthistory.westvalley.edu/images/D/DUCHAMP/FOUNTAIN.JPG
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What is Art?
Something is a work of art if it is “intended as art, presented as such, and … judged to be art by those qualified in such matters.”
– Grace Clueck
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What is Art?
“Art is expression; and expression we may describe…as the putting forth of purpose,
feeling, or thought into a sensuous medium, where they can be experienced again by the one who expresses himself
and communicated to others.”– Dewitt H. Parker describing Benedito Croce’s definition of ‘art’
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Is “GPS Art” Really Art?
“Artists”CriticsGPS as a medium
- technical limitations- capabilities and possibilities
Social ImplicationsThe Answer
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The Artists – Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/belephant.htm
The Brighton Elephant
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The Artists – Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood
LAX Airport
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/
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The Artists – Masaki Fujihata
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/impressing-velocity/
Impressing Velocity
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The Artists – Jeremy Hight, Jeff Knowlton and Naomi Spellman
from Martin Rieser, “Place, Space and Narrative Forms”
34 North 118 West
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The Artists – Timo Arnall
Photography and Mapping from Afar
http://www.elasticspace.com/images/afar_photo_map00.jpg
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The Artists – Timo Arnall
Time that Land Forgot
http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/timeland
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The Artists – 0100101110101101.org
http://0100101110101101.org/index.html
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The Artists – Nancy Nisbet
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/images/xray.jpg
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The Critics
Bloggers – Matt Ward“The map is open, connectable in all its dimensions, and capable of
being dismantled; it is reversible and susceptible to constant modifaction…. Contrary to a tracing which always returns to the ‘same,’ a map has multiple entrances.”
– French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Scholars – Martin Reiser“The GPS drawing project simultaneously combines the idea of
mapping and walking…. But these landscape mapes seem purely aesthetic in their intention.”
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The GPS Medium - Limitations
• Preexisting Infrastructure• Primitive/Restricted Aesthetic• Technological Flaws• Homogenization of Space• Expense• Participation• Exhibiting Technology
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The GPS Medium - Possibilities
Universal VisibilityPhysical ScaleObjective/Common ExperienceAssimilation of Technology and LifeExpansion of Human ReachMakes Invisible VisibleManipulation of DimensionsTranslating the Passive vs. the Active
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Looking Back to the Clouds…
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2799282800047123626KXdaRi
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And Back to the Map…
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~highrise/flat/where/maps/map4.gif
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www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/if.htm
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The Answer
Critics
Society’s Response- our minds- our eyes
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The Answer
“Unless you know where to look you will never see them.”
- Mark Ward (on Wood and Pryor)
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Society’s Reaction
Our Minds
Our Eyes
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ReferencesArnall, Timo. “Photography and Mapping from Afar.” Elastic Space. 28 Jul. 2004. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/afar>.
Arnall, Timo. “Time that Land Forgot.” Elastic Space. 30 Jul. 2004. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/timeland>.
Greene, Jo-Anne and Helen Thornton. “GPS Art.” networked_performance 30 Mar. 2005. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/000776.html>.
Hibino, Kikuhiko and Aldo Figueroa. “Global Positioning System (GPS): MAT200A.” University of California Santa Barbara. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/02w200a/gps/>.
Kamhi, Michelle Marder and Louis Torres. “Supplement to What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand – Chapter 6 - The Definition of Art.” ‘What Art Is’ Online.
2000. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.aristos.org/whatart/ch6.htm>.
Lakshmi, Sandhana. “With GPS, World Is Your Canvas.” Wired News 22 Jun. 2002. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,52989-0.html>.
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References (continued)Mirapaul, Matthew. “Drawing (and Doodling) With Countryside as Canvas.” The New York Times 1 Apr. 2002: E2.
Parker, Dewitt H. The Principles of Aesthetics. IndyPublish, 2001. Authorama. 9 Apr. 2007 <http://www.authorama.com/principles-of-aesthetics-3.html>.
Rieser, Martin. “Place, Space and New Narrative Forms.” Bath Spa University College, Bath, England.
Scheeres, Julia. “New Body Art: Chip Implants.” Wired News 11 Mar. 2002. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,50769-0.html>.
Ward, Mark. “Safari by Satellite.” BBC News Online. 15 Oct. 2001. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1595670.stm>.
Ward, Matt. “GPS Drawing: Meaningless Spatial Squiggles.” Thinking About Things 11 Feb. 2005. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://triptychresearch.typepad.com/thinking_about_things/2005/02/gps_drawing_mea.html>.
Whale, George. “Why Use Computers to Make Drawings?” Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2002): pp. 65-71.