My recent work has been concerned with analyzing our relationship with specific computational systems which shape our understanding of the world. In this brief series, I look at GPS Navigational Systems and Geo Mapping software (such as Google Maps, Street View, and Google Earth) and subvert their pictorial language through the use of digital collage.
I use these tools to navigate through spaces from my childhood in Monterrey, Mexico, and San Antonio, TX. Engaging in an Armchair Travel-like research, I find points of interest in each city (natural landmarks, views of downtown, representative architectural structures) and combine through digital collage.
The images of the places I "visit" may not correspond to my memory of them. By subverting the Digital Navigation software interface, this body of work points out the way that technology shapes a person's memory of physical spaces from past, and one's understanding of the present.
I use these tools to navigate through spaces from my childhood in Monterrey, Mexico, and San Antonio, TX. Engaging in an Armchair Travel-like research, I find points of interest in each city (natural landmarks, views of downtown, representative architectural structures) and combine through digital collage.
The images of the places I "visit" may not correspond to my memory of them. By subverting the Digital Navigation software interface, this body of work points out the way that technology shapes a person's memory of physical spaces from past, and one's understanding of the present.