Spectropolis workshops: GPS Drawing by Jeremy Wood

About GPS Drawing: In a two hour session there will be opportunities to draw on foot by following pre-planned routes and to improvise your own shapely walks around a park. The drawings can be simple and playful and will be recorded using handheld satellite navigation receivers. The art is about the experience of the journey and in treating ones travels like a cartographic crayon or a geodetic pencil. Afterwards the tracks will be uploaded onto a computer for processing and presentation. The participants will each receive their individual results along with a compilation GPS map of all the tracks collected on the day. See gpsdrawing.com for more images from past workshops.

Date and Time: Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2 at 12:00 and 2:00 pm (starts in City Hall Park)
About Jeremy Wood: Jeremy Wood creates maps and drawings from his journeys. He has been recording his travels using satellite navigation technology since he established the GPS Drawing Project in 2000 AD. He has traveled in the shape of elephants and butterflies by following the roads, rivers and footpaths of cities. He has driven along 537 miles of roads around southern England in the shape of the word "IF". The letters are 70 miles tall (the equivalent type size of 319,334,400 points) and included the towns of Iffley, Iford, Ifield and Iford. Fundamental to the practice is his collaborations with software developers to represent the work on the internet and for exhibitions. The work includes projects with schools, museums and galleries along with pilots, skydivers and whale hunters. He currently lives and works in London, England and his work can be seen at gpsdrawing.com and at ifmap.com.

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