Live and presentation, 2004
Before the common feature of GPS in mobile phones GSM network based triangulation was the only way to achieve location tracking. This project involved registering for an online ‘child & mobile phone’ location service and then navigating London, geo-tagging spaces manually with a mobile phone, notebook, camera and video camera. The locative data was captured simultaneously with a person at a desktop computer, logging in every 15 minutes to the tracking website that was logging my phone’s movements on request. This frequency was largely down to cost as pinging the phone every second would have been very expensive.
The resultant map image, description and timestamp output from the website was recorded, collated and matched to the timecode of the video data and manually reassembled as a projected presentation.
Tags: 2004, geotagging, GSM, locative, London, meta, meta-data, mobile, photography, portfolio, security, tracking, video