“»AmsterdamREALTIME«, a project undertaken at the end of 2002 by Esther Polak in cooperation with the Waag Society in Amsterdam also explores the recording of movements in the city space using GPS. A wireless connection makes it possible for gallery visitors to trace the locations of participating city residents in real time. For some, this brings up obvious surveillance issues. But according to Esther Polak’s own understanding of the project, the people whose movements were traced were in an enviable position, because they could decide when to switch on or off their GPS receivers, while their spectators had to wait, sometimes quite eagerly, for the visualizations to materialize.”
Securing Personal Evidence- On the artistic and tactical potential of GPS by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider published in Springerin Issue 3/2003 – Net section
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