what is gps art? an exploration of artistic paths jeff moll april 10, 2007
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What is Art?“If an artist says it’s art, it’s art.”
– Roberta Smith
http://arthistory.westvalley.edu/images/D/DUCHAMP/FOUNTAIN.JPG
What is Art?
Something is a work of art if it is “intended as art, presented as such, and … judged to be art by those qualified in such matters.”
– Grace Clueck
What is Art?
“Art is expression; and expression we may describe…as the putting forth of purpose,
feeling, or thought into a sensuous medium, where they can be experienced again by the one who expresses himself
and communicated to others.”– Dewitt H. Parker describing Benedito Croce’s definition of ‘art’
Is “GPS Art” Really Art?
“Artists”CriticsGPS as a medium
- technical limitations- capabilities and possibilities
Social ImplicationsThe Answer
The Artists – Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/land/belephant.htm
The Brighton Elephant
The Artists – Masaki Fujihata
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/impressing-velocity/
Impressing Velocity
The Artists – Jeremy Hight, Jeff Knowlton and Naomi Spellman
from Martin Rieser, “Place, Space and Narrative Forms”
34 North 118 West
The Artists – Timo Arnall
Photography and Mapping from Afar
http://www.elasticspace.com/images/afar_photo_map00.jpg
The Artists – Timo Arnall
Time that Land Forgot
http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/timeland
The Critics
Bloggers – Matt Ward“The map is open, connectable in all its dimensions, and capable of
being dismantled; it is reversible and susceptible to constant modifaction…. Contrary to a tracing which always returns to the ‘same,’ a map has multiple entrances.”
– French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Scholars – Martin Reiser“The GPS drawing project simultaneously combines the idea of
mapping and walking…. But these landscape mapes seem purely aesthetic in their intention.”
The GPS Medium - Limitations
• Preexisting Infrastructure• Primitive/Restricted Aesthetic• Technological Flaws• Homogenization of Space• Expense• Participation• Exhibiting Technology
The GPS Medium - Possibilities
Universal VisibilityPhysical ScaleObjective/Common ExperienceAssimilation of Technology and LifeExpansion of Human ReachMakes Invisible VisibleManipulation of DimensionsTranslating the Passive vs. the Active
ReferencesArnall, Timo. “Photography and Mapping from Afar.” Elastic Space. 28 Jul. 2004. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/afar>.
Arnall, Timo. “Time that Land Forgot.” Elastic Space. 30 Jul. 2004. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/07/timeland>.
Greene, Jo-Anne and Helen Thornton. “GPS Art.” networked_performance 30 Mar. 2005. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/000776.html>.
Hibino, Kikuhiko and Aldo Figueroa. “Global Positioning System (GPS): MAT200A.” University of California Santa Barbara. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/02w200a/gps/>.
Kamhi, Michelle Marder and Louis Torres. “Supplement to What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand – Chapter 6 - The Definition of Art.” ‘What Art Is’ Online.
2000. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.aristos.org/whatart/ch6.htm>.
Lakshmi, Sandhana. “With GPS, World Is Your Canvas.” Wired News 22 Jun. 2002. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,52989-0.html>.
References (continued)Mirapaul, Matthew. “Drawing (and Doodling) With Countryside as Canvas.” The New York Times 1 Apr. 2002: E2.
Parker, Dewitt H. The Principles of Aesthetics. IndyPublish, 2001. Authorama. 9 Apr. 2007 <http://www.authorama.com/principles-of-aesthetics-3.html>.
Rieser, Martin. “Place, Space and New Narrative Forms.” Bath Spa University College, Bath, England.
Scheeres, Julia. “New Body Art: Chip Implants.” Wired News 11 Mar. 2002. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,50769-0.html>.
Ward, Mark. “Safari by Satellite.” BBC News Online. 15 Oct. 2001. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1595670.stm>.
Ward, Matt. “GPS Drawing: Meaningless Spatial Squiggles.” Thinking About Things 11 Feb. 2005. 9 Apr. 2007. <http://triptychresearch.typepad.com/thinking_about_things/2005/02/gps_drawing_mea.html>.
Whale, George. “Why Use Computers to Make Drawings?” Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (2002): pp. 65-71.