November 30, 2005
Art: GPS Diary
"In GPS Diary, London-based Thorsten Knaub has combined an interest in tracking bodily movements through space with the traditional artist's practice of keeping a daily sketch book. Knaub produced web-based drawings by carrying a GPS device with him everyday for one year, creating a linear, doodle-like composition for each day that can now be viewed individually, or downloaded as compressed representations of a month or the entire year. Knaub's artist statement points to the dehumanizing effects such technologies can have on our understandings of being in the world, making one's daily movements little more than a series of plotted points, and the drawings revel in that process of abstraction."
link & blurb excerpt via NetArtNews
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