Jeremy Wood + Hugh Pryor
GPS Drawing

GPS Drawing is about recording lines using ones journey as a mark making medium. The GPS receiver automatically records your journey like a geodesic pencil. A network of 24 satellites broadcast radio signals down to the Earth to a handheld GPS receiver. Depending on your location, you'll receive the signals from different satellites at different times. A GPS receiver can compare the arrival times of each signal and will calculate and record your location.

Most GPS receivers record your whereabouts as a track, like a dot-to-dot or a digital 'bread-crumb trail'. This is often displayed on liquid crystal display on the device and the track is updated as you move about. It's quite intriguing watching the line being traced, most people will just think you are just pacing backwards and forwards playing itchy-thumb on a mobile telephone. You might find that a routine journey might look a bit like a stegosaurus driving a fork-lift truck, or a lizard that is engaged in a tooth-scuffle with a giant spider. You might not, but if you did, you may wish to make a diversion to complete the drawing, and possibly go back to fill in some details. The tracks can then be downloaded onto a computer via a cable and then processed on a variety of software, we mainly use our custom built GPS-ograph.

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bio:
The GPS drawing project was started in 2000 after Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood captured a giant GPS fish. The Gallery now contains many types of drawings that are part of an ongoing investigation into a method of digital mark making.
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