CHECKING REALITY [^]
18 MAY – 10 AUGUST 2008, PLATFORM 21, Prinses Irenestraat 19 1077 WT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

GPS Data Cloud, Jeremy Wood, Beatrixpark 2008 www.gpsdrawing.com
A sculpture of where technology thinks it is in relation to
where we are now. It is composed of many public benches all
at different heights and positions, overlapping and intersecting
each other and with the ground like a visual glitch.

A series of coordinates were automatically recorded from a
stationary GPS receiver that rested on each of the two original
benches for a few minutes. The new benches mark precisely where
the original benches were according to the Global Positioning
System in 2008. The inaccuracy is a measure of the current
satellite positioning technology and refers to the many systems
we rely on to locate ourselves.

Jeremy Wood started drawing with GPS in 2000. He maps his daily movements with GPS to express a personal cartography, and his drawings and sculptures have been exhibited internationally. They include walking along a quote that was spelt along footpaths and parks of London for Meridians, and drawing the shape of a star in the skies over Europe in Pentagram Flights. (www.gpsdrawing.com)