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Footnotes Symposium

Bill Psarras and Athena Stourna at University of the Peloponnese
2026-11-12 14:00
Multiple locations

Footnotes is a hybrid one-day symposium exploring walking art, ritual and embodied technologies, marking Ridha Dhib’s arrival in Nafplio after his long-distance performance Mnemosyne. It brings together artists, writers and academics to reflect on wa

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Walking piece 2014

Ghost Walker

Ghost Walker: An Impossible Walk Through Mexico City's History explores a vanished street using historic maps and Google overlays. Inspired by dérive and Collective Actions techniques, the project traces 150 years of urban change, absence, and memory through a participatory artistic walk.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2007

Walking Tools

Walking Tools is an open-source locative media project led by Brett Stalbaum at UCSD (2007–), developing shared GPS media standards and tools like HiperGps/HiperGeo to create, deploy, and share location-based narratives for education, art, and activism.

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Launch of Stenness Sound Walk

2021-09-01 13:00
Stenness, Shetland, UK

We will be at Stenness Beach, Northmavine, Shetland to launch our new sound walk that uses cutting edge GPS technology created by Satsymph. Hope people can join us there on the beach between 2pm and 4pm.

post Curated news 10 Dec, 2022

Strava art lets you draw with your feet

I started an odd holiday tradition a few years ago. Strava art is using your GPS on your tracking device to draw a picture by turning your body into a drawing tool that records your movements. In 2020 I thought it would be cool to make a Marietta-sized Christmas tree. Part of the challenge of

post Curated news 03 Nov, 2020

Edinburgh GPs to prescribe nature and birdsong to patients in partnership with RSPB | The Scotsman

GPs in Edinburgh are to prescribe nature as a treatment for patients in a groundbreaking partnership with RSPB Scotland. Source: Edinburgh GPs to prescribe nature and birdsong to patients in partnership with RSPB | The Scotsman

Walking piece
Walking piece 2009

0º00 Navigation Part I: A Journey Across England

A lone figure follows the Greenwich Meridian across England, moving straight north regardless of obstacles, from sea to sea. The video treats the zero line of longitude as a literal path, exposing its artificial, historical origins.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2004

Drift

Drift is a site-specific GPS-based sound installation exploring wandering, disorientation, and the limits of GPS. Visitors traverse a shifting 2 km² space of sand, sea, and interactive sounds, where footsteps, spoken word, and tides create a playful, unpredictable experience of place.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2013

The Path of Love

The Path of Love by Omar Mismar is a 30-day project where the artist uses Grindr to navigate the city, choosing a man each day and tracking his routes to trace paths of desire and movement through urban space.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

Various sculptures

Thompson’s work transforms walked landscapes into layered sculptures and prints. Using routes traced by GPS or maps, he crafts hand-cut forms that reflect topography, memory, and place through carefully chosen materials and colours.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2000

My Ghost

Jeremy Wood’s My Ghost maps fifteen years of his journeys via GPS, turning movement into personal cartography. Footpaths, motorways, and flights create textured visual records, exploring how travel, landscape rules, and straying from routes shape experience.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2002

White Horse Hill | GPS Model

Jeremy Wood mapped Uffington’s White Horse using GPS, creating a 1:1000 scale 3D model of 43 km of walks. His work links human movement and landscape, echoing Nasca Lines and chalk figures, revealing patterns only fully seen from above.

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Walking piece 2004

GPS Series – 3 Months New York / Toronto

3 Months New York / Toronto is a two-minute video mapping the artist’s daily movements in both cities. Fading GPS traces reveal location patterns over time, using walking as a drawing tool. It is the first work in the ongoing *GPS Series*.

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Walking piece Marŝarto23 2023

TRACE: A Remote Geography of the Mind

This project explores how we can create new geographies of the mind by collaboratively exploring our local environments slowly, at a very small scale, and by hand rather than on foot. Working together, artists Chris Kaczmarek and Deirdre Macleod each recorded, using Whatsapp, a sequence of concurrent haptic walks in which each artist draws attention

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS23 2023

Who Ate all the Pies?

A GPS triggered audio quest for families on The Isle of Dogs inspired by open world video games. Families will find clues, get letters & solve this playful whodunnit, encountering some very interesting suspects before tucking into pie & mash.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS23 2023

Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft

A floating roof of sound in Struer, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept.

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GPS Museum

GPS Museum is an archive of more than 100 locative media artworks. More than 15 years of history of Locative Media with GPS and mobile devices are doomed to disappear. You will probably find a lot of broken links, but there is not much to do until we...
Fred Adam
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V.O.N.A.R.

Vocal Orientation And Navigation Through development and practice of Driftsinging.

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