GEOLOCATION PROJECT
"Twitter has allowed us to become intimately involved in strangers’ lives as we follow their tweets through daily errands and thoughts; exploring the lives of others 140 characters at a time.
The GEOLOCATION project follows random tweets and by using Geotag information embedded in these tweets, travel to the GPS coordinates and take a photograph of the site of the update. By photographing the site with its accompanying tweet, the project creates a real life situation and location for these usually anonymous posts. The GEOLOCATION project focuses on the cultural understanding of distance as perceived in modern life and grounded in network culture." -http://cac.wildapricot.org/events?eventId=258757&EventViewMode=EventDetails
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| Photo from Geolocation Project via Twitter |
“Mapping the Data Stream” features three recent series of technologically enabled photographs by Larson. The newest series, “History Lessons,” is a photographic exploration of significant historic sites, coupled with references and messages to the site gathered from online social networks.
The second series, “Geolocation,” monitors public Twitter tweets and the associated Geotag information. Upon viewing a particularly compelling, poetic or personal Twitter update, Larson and his colleague Marni Shindelman traveled to the GPS coordinates and made a photograph to mark the location of the update in the real world and paired the image with the originating text.
The third series documents recent site-specific GPS drawings made by Larson and Shindelman and uses invisible technological threads to create virtual drawings and writings in urban landscapes."
-http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2010/09/01/michael-sherwin-nate-larson-photography-exhibitions-open-at-mesaros-galleries
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| sketch of Dick Cheney from GPS drawings project |
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