GPS ANIMATED GEOGLYPH

INFORMATION

Sagehen Flat, UCSD Crooked Creek Research Facility, CA 2007 16.2 kilometers total, 4 GPS walks in a shape similar to the Blythe CA Geoglyph, wherein each walk is one frame of animation. The end result is a virtual walking geoglyph.

The work draws inspiration from method art, primitivism, land art, GPS drawing, and animation. Its final form will be as part of Christin Turner’s senior honors thesis, beside another GPS Animated Geoglyph she has completed – wherein the city grid and the GPS unit’s capacity to log tracks within urban canyons shape the drawing.

All technical aspects and some physical labor provided by Brett Stalbaum, without whom this project would not have been possible.

CHRISTIN TURNER

Christin Turner is a 4th year media with computing emphasis major at the University of California San Diego, with a focus on experimental animation and conceptual art. She has studied at UCLA, Dartmouth, and Georg-Austadt Universitat in Germany. She is currently working on her senior honors thesis to be completed in 2008.