PaulaArtistTalk
From AlmostPerfect
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
' 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
