Xeno Design

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.

Click here to download the OxfordQM.zip file the "Oxford Question Marks" install Google Earth unzip the OxfordQM file and then double click on one of the files to open it in Google Earth.

Close up of Oxford1. This Question mark was created on the grounds of St. Hilda's College where we were staying.

Close up of Oxford2. This question mark was created in Christ Church meadow. Christ Church Cathedral is in the lower left of the image.

Close up of Oxford3

From 2001 to the present I created a number of graffiti images around my hometown of Nanaimo.

Click to download the "SatelliteGraffiti.zip" file to see the images I created in Nanaimo.