Category: locative
Revisiting Chicago
It feels great to be back in a diverse and cosmopolitan city. Walking the streets, flaneuring, drifting, getting lost in the crowd, are always re-energizing. Li...
Geographic Data and Inequalities
I just assisted a great panel at SXSWi that discussed the inequalities of Geo-Data on the internet. This is something we sometimes overlook when we talk about ...
Grassroots Creativity and Adverstising: A GPS drawing in a Smartphone TV Ad
Some weeks ago I wrote an entry in this blog about the aesthetic quality of GPS traces and shared a couple of expressive GPS drawings I found at OpenStreetMap. ...
GPS Traces as Drawings
The possibility of recording movements in space is something that has attracted me since I was a kid. I loved to draw maps of my journeys and document the path ...
Romantic Padlocks Invasion : Love Locks Participatory Sculptures Spread Globally
The first time I saw them was in 2010, attached to the metal railings of the Pont des Arts in Paris. They looked mysterious and out of context. Over the metal s...