Thorsten Knaub

GPS Diary 15.11.2003/London/UK

GPS Diary exhibition view
Metalandscapes Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

GPS Diary exhibition view
Metalandscapes Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

GPS Diary video documentation
Metalandscapes Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

GPS Diary (2003/5)
Web archive, PDF files and digital prints
Computer with 24" screen, mouse
Digital print, 150 x 150 cm, MDF mounted
12 x digital prints 50 x 50 cm

In the GPS Diary project the artist Thorsten Knaub recorded his daily movements over the course of a year (2003) by carrying a Global Positioning System (GPS) in order to continually map his movements. The project explores ideas of surveillance, our relationship with technology and questions where daily life stops and artistic activity begins.

The GPS Diary project is archived in various forms, from PDF files representing the whole year to visualisations representing each month, as well as a physical print. The web archive of the year-long project can be found at www.gpsdiary.org


Exhibition history:

SPACE IS THE PLACE
27 August - 1 September 2009
Gallery of National College of Art & Design
Dublin, Ireland

METALANDSCAPES
5 October 2007 - 6 January 2008
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

LIKE BEADS ON AN ABACUS DESIGNED TO CALCULATE INFINITY
16 April - 16 May 2004
Rockwell Gallery, London