Running stitch

Southern, J. and Hamilton, J. (2006) Running stitch. Fabrica, Fabrica, Brighton.

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Abstract

Running Stitch is a 5m x 5m tapestry map, created live during the exhibition by charting the journeys of participants through the city.

Visitors to the exhibition took a GPS-enabled mobile phone to track their journeys through the city centre. These walks resulted in individual GPS 'drawings' of the visitor's movements that were then projected live in the exhibition to disclose hidden aspects of the city. Each individual route was sewn, as it happened, into a hanging canvas to form an evolving tapestry that revealed a sense of place and interconnection.

Running Stitch explores how a track made with a GPS device changes our awareness and experience of place through the new vantage points and perspectives afforded by the use of satellite navigation.

Item Type:	Other
Uncontrolled Keywords:	GPS, Tapestries, Satellite navigation, Exhibitions
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Schools:	School of Art, Design and Architecture
Related URLs:	Author
Depositing User:	Users 4 not found.
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	28 Jul 2010 18:21
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/421

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