Blog 2: Mobility

In the old days we used maps to find out which highways we had to take to reach our destination. Now we all have a GPS system in our car to find out where we have to go. And we even can look back to get a total overview from the drive; from the beginning to the end. GPS has made our lives much easier on the road but also more fun.  

Since a couple of years it has becoming popular to make ‘GPS art’ with the overviews of the ride. By driving in certain directions you can make figures that show up at the end of the ride. To accomplish this you need be a very good but also smart driver, because if you make one mistake your ‘Art’ can be distroyed. GPS art is mostly combined with races within the city limits. The one who can finish his or her figure as first wins the race. Of course, the police isn’t happy with these races. Because a race is a race, and that can lead to great danger in traffic. But still the GPS-ers are unaware of the fact that they are doing something illegal and continue their ‘art’.

Even though many people disagree on the fact that this is art, the people who exercise the GPS art think it is. According to them everything that you make, create or shape is art. ‘So if you are able to make a painting out of a GPS then you are an artist’.