Live Stage: ElasticMapping [
Amsterdam]

ElasticMapping: A lecture-performance by Esther Polak :: October 6, 2009; 8:30 pm :: Netherlands Media Art Institute, keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam, Netherlands :: RSVP: info [at] nimk.nl
At this evening session Esther Polak will do a public performance with the GPS drawing robot, based on the herders’ and truck drivers’ tracks collected in Nigeria. The performance will be followed by a talk on ElasticMapping: the possibilities of manipulating and editing GPS tracks, and how this opens up the cinematographic qualities of location data ‘as such’ to meaningful artistic investigation, resulting in more and more subjective and personalized mappings that will have a big impact on the future use of digital location aware media. Continue reading