GPS

GPS

 

A GPS painting incorporating the tracks of 24 participants from several different countries superimposed over the participants selfies transferred onto a series of 20x20” canvas.

Artist Paul Campbell had asked the workers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to monitor their steps using GPS tracking for one day and then created a mural using different colored lines for different routes on a 66-foot wall at the yard.

 
 

The mural represents just a fraction of activity the Navy Yard sees daily and people visiting the mural can scan a QR code in the mural to see a profiles for each worker who participated.

“My work often involves finding unusual ways to make paintings that remove the hand of the artist, and this is a technological way to make this happen,” says Campbell. “This was a way for me to create something beautiful and fun using a tracking system.”

A team of five spent four days on the mural which will remained up for a year.

 

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