GPS-based mobile drawing game
Nicolas' wonderful research blog — the creme brulee of blogs, really — captured this neat little GPS project, reminiscent of Jeremy Wood and Hugh Pryor's GPS Drawing project.
GPS-based mobile drawing game:
Via the locative mailing.list: “N8Spel” a project by Just van den Broecke for the Waag Society. It’s actually a GPS-based mobile drawing game for the Amsterdam Museum Night.
Teams would go into the city where they compete on who would (geo)draw the most beautiful “8″ by walking with a GPS and a mobile phone. They could embellish their drawings with photo’s and video’s taken and submitted on the spot. The competitive element was creativity with both the drawing and the media. All submitted media were tagged to the geographic locations where they were taken. The player’s movements, tracks and media could be followed in real-time through a webbrowser
Here is a screenshot of the game
The technical description of the game is described here
thanks again, nicolas!
WHy do I blog this? Translating landscape into a canvas — for images, stories, visualizations — has a long history in the guise of what it sometimes called "landscape art." Pulling an instrument like GPS into the mix is exciting and conceptually challenging. In part, it's a re-appropriation of a military technology into a creative practice, which has all sorts of implications that make it a worthy exercise and topic of discussion.
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