The Road Between Us
2008 - 2011
Interactive installation
Interactive installation
With the development of GPS and the growth of online mapping, the world-wide territory is being increasingly documented.
Tools such as Google Maps or Google Earth, providing "augmented" maps, enable people to take ownership of the territory by adding dynamic content : favorite places, videos, pre-recorded GPS routes... In parallel, the Flickr website (free hosting of public and private photographs) provides the storing of geo-localized images (more and more cameras have built-in GPS). Millions of geo-tagged photographs are available online.
The Road Between Us is a generator of imaginary travels and fictitious GPS journeys. Made from the photographs available on Flickr, these routes are viewable in Google Earth in a kind of spatial slideshow. These journeys, which are micro-narratives, are generated iteratively. Therefore, The road between us provides a form of narration, which isn't thematic, but specific to the space device itself.
Tools such as Google Maps or Google Earth, providing "augmented" maps, enable people to take ownership of the territory by adding dynamic content : favorite places, videos, pre-recorded GPS routes... In parallel, the Flickr website (free hosting of public and private photographs) provides the storing of geo-localized images (more and more cameras have built-in GPS). Millions of geo-tagged photographs are available online.
The Road Between Us is a generator of imaginary travels and fictitious GPS journeys. Made from the photographs available on Flickr, these routes are viewable in Google Earth in a kind of spatial slideshow. These journeys, which are micro-narratives, are generated iteratively. Therefore, The road between us provides a form of narration, which isn't thematic, but specific to the space device itself.
Events >
2009Trackback, , La Cantine, Paris, FR
2008Sombres Desseins/Dark designs, group show, Maison d'Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, CH
2008Biennale Mulhouse 008, , Parc des Expositions, Mulhouse, FR
Press >
MCD, Sud-Ouest, Gaîté Lyrique, Musiques Tangentes, ETC, Radio Suisse Romande (la 1ère & Couleur 3), HyperUrbain, AS-MAP, Arts des nouveaux médias, Wired, ...
