A little submission for a small project: Very basic, wrote it in ten minutes.

Artists: Paige Saez paigesaez.org Anselm Hook hook.org

Affiliations: makerlab.com red76.com

Proposal for Disjecta Art Space for opening exhibit of the new space in NoPo

Medium: Website, Video, Google Maps, Cellphones, Processing

The artists have been working in augmented reality style art/game projects and de-mystifying technologies. For the purpose of this and many projects, they have hacked their cellphones and begun reprogramming them in novel ways. One of which involves a voluntary tracking device.

Whereis:

Now more than ever, we are being persistently watched by governments and corporations- this is done in a manner of already familiar ways- via our purchases with credit cards, video surveillance and online transactions and activities to name just a few.

Using geo-location triangulation via cell towers everyone can be tracked by their cellphone- plotting daily movements for anyone with the device.

Surfacing this inherent stalking capability the artists have offered to be tracked in real-time for the remainder of their lives, by hacking their phones and creating a database of all of the movements that they make across the landscape.

The artists have devised a means of displaying this activity in real time, plotting our lives in linear form on to the walls of the space and then forever more on our website: makerlab.com/projects. The project will be open and free for everyone to take and use to make their own tracking devices at the exhibit.

Furthermore, we would like to invite other people to plot their lives with us-using the same software we created. The result would be that there is an organically generated painting of each persons daily lives overlapping each other with the movements mapped and translated into a piece simultaneously. Each person will be represented as a shape, color or line. To participate in this little piece please write me at paige @ g mail dot com