Ryan Griffis: "For An Art Against The Cartography Of Everyday Life"
http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=176
When I was reading this article I didn't completely understand everything that they were talking about, especially when they started getting into the technical stuff about GPS (Geographic Positioning System) & GIS (Geographic Information System), but I found it interesting how they were using these technologies to create "art". For instance, the "MILK" project where they went through the entire process of how cheese is made and the people and paths used to achieve the end result. (Granted this is probably not a piece of art that would stop me dead in my tracks to fully appreciate, but the concept was interesting enough to learn about). It always comes down to the trickiness between how much we are benefiting from these types of technologies, what we can learn from them and the advantages we have as the general public VS the privacy and surveillance issues that come along with it. It was especially informative to read about the "Road Map" project where they tracked the time it took for two individuals to travel the same distance based on their ethnicity. The first man was able to get through relatively fast and the other man took approximately five times as long to get through an excess of checkpoints and safe paths.
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