O'ROURKE Karen, Walking and mapping, artists as cartographers, ed. MIT Press, 2013

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/walking-and-mapping

A propos du projet Traits de Stéphan Barron

About Lines project by Stéphan Barron

In chapter 6 : Lines made by walking

Early work with Mobile Technologies

The artistic use of ubiquitous and location-aware technology goes back to the 1980's and early 1990s. Sometimes the location awareness of the technology itself was minimal. Diverting it from its original purpose, artists gave us a glimpse of new possibilities. [...] During that decade several artists used analog fax transmissions to materialize invisible lines tracing their passage through space. In 1989, Stephan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann drove due south from Villers‑sur‑Mer on the English Channel to Castillon de la Plana on the Mediterranean Sea/ following the path of the Greenwich meridian. Along the way, they gathered traces of their trip, which they faxed to eight European locations. The imaginary line they drew with their bodies was materialized by the fax transmissions in the exhibition spaces.(3) At the time, fax machines were equipped with rolls of paper, which made it possible for the images to be printed out of the machine in a continuous line.