Using GPS Data To Create Art

UK-based GPS artist Jeremy Wood’s new artwork ‘Mowing the Lawn’ is displayed at the Tenderpixel Gallery in London. Jeremy has pioneered the art of drawing and mapping with satellite navigation technology by treating himself as a geodesic pencil.

‘Mowing the Lawn’ portrays his movements on a riding mower in different intervals of time where he uses his GPS data stream by accurately plotting his time, date and position coordinates to reveal an evolving exploration of travel in the form of densely packed line drawings and animations.

Tenderpixel comments on his project:

Mowing the Lawn exhibition charts the artist’s movements on a riding mower throughout the course of several seasons. Underneath the densely layered tracks are individual narratives that express a freedom of movement generated from an act of garden maintenance. Their fine linear qualities are evocative of how we negotiate our journeys in bounded areas and reflect upon the ruts we make along our travels.

Tenderpixel: Mowing the Lawn by Jeremy Wood

Jeremy Wood

[via Rhizome]