Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman
Work from Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream.
“Each morning we follow strangers through their Twitter updates, becoming intimately involved in their banal daily errands. We imagine ourselves as virtual flâneurs, exploring cities 140 characters at a time through the lives of others. Sometimes we follow these strangers for a day and other times for months, following the ups and downs of their posts to this public venue.
Using publicly available embedded geotag information in the updates, we track the locations of the Twitter users through their GPS coordinates and make a photograph to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text.” – Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman