Satellite Drawing
Satellite Graffiti

My work is a creative application of an information technology.  I am developing the GPS receiver as an innovative drawing tool for creating community-based art that I call “Satellite Graffiti”.  It combines GPS technology, a Google Earth mash-up, video, audio, large-scale photographs, and other documentation in an installation that maps not only the terrain, but also the social and political ideals of our community.

     In the sky above, 24 satellites are orbiting the earth. When I step outside and turn on my GPS, anywhere from 3 to 12 of these satellites point directly at me.  As I begin to move, they engrave a line in cyberspace. My GPS receiver records the line. This virtual line is layered with a narrative line in the real world, comprised of my observations and chance encounters that have been recorded with photographs and video. This line can easily be superimposed on satellite photography, shared with others on the Internet, and viewed on Google Earth. (Click Here to Download Google Earth)

In 2007 while in Oxford England I did 3 question marks on fields around the town.

Satellite drawing in Oxford England

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