Thorsten Knaub

GPS Erasure (Sa Dragonera) exhibition view
Metalandscapes Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

GPS Erasure (Sa Dragonera) exhibition view
Metalandscapes Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

GPS Erasure (Sa Dragonera) video documentation
Metalandscapes Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

GPS Erasure (Sa Dragonera) installation view
Video of walking on Sa Dragonera (extract)

GPS Erasure (Sa Dragonera) (2007)
Data animation, DVD and digital prints
Data projection, dimension variable;
7 Digital prints, 29 x 21 cm
Flash file, 8:45 min, DVD 16:39 min; loop

GPS Erasure (Sa Dragonera) explores the relationship between technology, landscape and human interaction within a natural environment.

Spending six days on the uninhabited island of Sa Dragonera off the coast of Mallorca, Knaub walked different parts of its terrain each day while being equipped with a GPS receiver.

The resulting data where then overlayed onto a projection of the map of the island to gradually 'erase' its shape and geographical identity.


Exhibition history:

METALANDSCAPES
4th Triennale of Photography
11 - 20 April, 2008
Deichtorcenter Hamburg, Germany

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