Artist Statement

Using publicly available embedded geotag information in Twitter updates, Larson and Shindelman track the locations of users through their GPS coordinates and make a photograph to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text.

Larson and Shindelman think of these photographs as historical monuments to small lived moments, selecting texts that reveal something about the personal nature of the users' lives or the national climate of the United Kingdom. It is also grounds the virtual reality of social networking data streams in their originating locations in the physical world while examining how the nature of one's physical space may influence online presence.

Artist Bio

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman’s collaborative work focuses on the cultural understanding of distance as perceived in modern life and network culture. Their GEOLOCATION project was recently featured on the NPR program Marketplace Tech Report and in the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun. Selections from our collaborations have been shown at the Contemporary Arts Center Las Vegas; Houston Center for Photography; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Baltimore Museum of Art; the 2nd Moscow International Biennale; RAIQ in Montréal; Peloton in Sydney, Australia; the Center on Contemporary Art Seattle; City Without Walls in New Jersey; and the Conflux Festival in NYC.

For further information on Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman please see www.telepathicwitness.com