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I'm hoping there are some breaks for sleep so far! give me a chance to look at my practice with GPS back to some work I did in 2003 our access to GPS tech is quite new that happened in 2000 president clinton opened up the system to civilians - at higher resolution we could begin to develop things a flurry of activities with respect to the GPS geo caching http://geocaching.com worldwide treasure hunt more complex and interesting projects looking at toxicity levels in cities etc.. our engagement is a beginning with this I'm interested in tracking the body through space the receiever could shadow the body normally is invisible to us I came to it through narrative and video making informed by points of view don't have a record of many of the pieces - these are simulations from where you stand 2003 I have no cartesian sense of direction I used the gps to map my own sense of direction - over the cartesian direction walk to the: * North * North East * North West I mapped the direction I went in , and saw how it mapped onto the cartesian space there is no corelation! not even a reverse second series was about TaiChi connect the place where I was with my movement carried and intervalomenter and a GPS this developed a what does it mean to be seen through this onmipresent eye of GPS '' Smell Maps '' Gpsed the smells that I experienced Halifax Nova Scotia then I linked the smells to the map and the then removed the map '' Platonic overlays '' perfect and imperfect tried to make the most perfect shapes by walking - while being traced by the GPS unit I was using the GPS as a way of augmenting my life - in the way that I use the camera what does it mean that we are being viewed by this over view being viewed but not being able to see feeling of surveillance being traced or tracked satellites are in a fixed orbit theoretically we are being mapped wherever we go. - in practice it doesn't work like that separated me from my body as well as enhanced it GPS drawings http://www.gpsdrawings.com/gallery/land/six-spirals.htm a sense of proximity and closeness while there was a sense of separation I went on and did some pieced using GPS in various forms history is composed of itineraries of people moving through space and passing by locative media can make those tracks visible over time punctureing space Roland Bharte some images don't do anything - but somethings puncture you - rip you apart how does that relate to Space? sometimes its just A -> B sometimes you are punctured how does locative media puncture or space. * Revealing hidden dynamics and topographies of place we are overlayed with signals radio cell phones these signals exist while we exist in space even though we don't see them '' Speaking Here'' 2004 http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~plevine/index_frameset.html great people ryan johnson video sound, c++ flash, laptops very clunky awkward walking round with a laptop internation nation withing nation done here in banff overwhelmed by the mountains engaged fellow residents through the small window in the studio framed window - and described what they saw in their own language then I combined their language + video of the panorama and combined that with their description then I mapped the deck with areas based on their languages wabanaki-korean hebrew-vietnamese japanese-english korean-urdu language is related to the place where you live not just accent but the phrases that you use Wallace Stevens - we live in the descriptions of places rather than the places themselves language is our very limited attempt to describe and understand these big questions we have - it's good project to see because it shows where the tech comes from '' Shadows from another place '' based on Susan Sontags idea of the difficulites we have with troubles with the world ?? baghdad invasion documentation war villages stymied by the distance and the proximity between san francisco and baghdad narrative is all we have to translate what we have into some understandable form used GIS systems layered map systems used the idea for this piece overlaid Baghdad on San Francisco overlaid the bomb sites from baghdad on SF then went to the locations and documented then geo cached names of dead soldiers in the location '' Day by Day, Death by Death' http://www.villagevoice.com ?? read like a script of a bad charlie chapling movie baghdad is bigger than sf my mapping frieds were outraged that I ripped a city out of its co-ordinates to do that got the bomb data from guardian uk http://paulalevine.banff.org ' Flight 93' Mapping cultural Image of the crash of Flight 93 Shanksville Pensylvania one of the 3 sept 11th crashes we proposed a commerative that took this site. It was a toxic waste site for restoration reclamation ponds - which became clearer I did a GPS narrative network monuments flatten out history and move them into an ideological representation we wanted to add a network of living history into it '' Mediascape'' add url california was home to many tribal groups restoration of an area created an overlay of the city documenting the regeneration and the areas pre history the sound of the past existing in this urbanised space worked with the environmental historian who knew the detail of the natural environment - and its seasonal make up also worked with a geologist '' Scape the hood '' '' Shadows from another place '' this I want to do here a barrier wall is going up in Aub Dis in Israel wall is going up across the urban fabric want to do a superimposition of the wall on another place Punctured Space? at ISEA I did Qalqiliya on San Jose shadowing one place on another collapse the spaces experience foreign events and spaces as not so foreign

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