Open AccessRerouting Google Maps: drawing- and performance-based methods in action
Author(s) -
Rebecca Noone
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual conference of cais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-7589
DOI - 10.29173/cais1108
Subject(s) - action (physics) , set (abstract data type) , perception , space (punctuation) , computer science , the arts , orientation (vector space) , visual arts , sociology , psychology , art , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , programming language , operating system , geometry , mathematics
The following paper outlines an arts-based research project that uses drawing and performance to critically examine the perceptual conditions generated by locative media, specifically the dominant Google Maps platform. The research is based on a series of wayfinding encounters in four major urban centres—Toronto, ON, New York, NY, London, UK, and Amsterdam, NL—during which the artist-researcher asked passers-by for directions with the additional request the directions be drawn using the instruments provided. The paper considers the street-level behaviours and practices of location-awareness and orientation set against the constructions of trust, seamlessness, and claim to space Google Maps deploys.