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Data Cloud, Beatrixpark, Amsterdam, 2008

DATA CLOUD

Data Cloud is a public sculpture that asks about where we are in relation to where technology thinks we are. The work forms a kind of digital disturbance in the real world creating a visual glitch.

Originally, the location only had two old benches. I placed a GPS receiver on each of these and checked their position every 10 seconds for the duration of 1 minute. These successive locations were assembled into a map of where the international positioning infrastructure said they were. Twelve new park benches were then precisely placed according to where the GPS technology positioned them, on top of and beside the original two existing benches.

The inaccuracy of the placements is a measure of the current level of satellite positioning technology and it refers to the many systems we rely on to locate ourselves.

Data Cloud was commissioned by Tom Jaspers in 2008 for the Checking Reality exhibition at Platform 21. The sculpture was exhibited in Beatrixpark, Amsterdam, beside Platform 21 studios during 2008.

GPS Drawing Archive - www.gpsdrawing.com/projects/datacloud.html

Platform 21 - www.platform21.nl/page/207/en

 

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