Glenn Davidson / Reversing the Google Car: You May Fund

Saturday 24th October / 2:00 pm / Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

Project Outline

Glenn Davidson (Artstation) has been commissioned to create a ‘sousveillance’ exploring what a Reversing the Google Car (RGC) might mean and look like.

Leading up to the Festival Glenn has been discussing the RGC with a diverse range of invited ‘guests’ to find out how to reverse the Google Car, starting off by looking at its various effects upon us. The conversations will contribute to a public drawing to evoke the issues of eg being mapped with out being asked. The process will endeavour to proffer a retaliatory vision, a small reverse in the ongoing saga of our observed condition.

During the Festival the conversation and the drawing will be opened up in a session that develops the emergent themes, and presents the drawing. Amongst contributors to RGC will be Charlie Gere (author of Art, Time & Technology) and other practitioners and theorists drawn from Architecture, Cultural Studies, Art Practice, Art Theory, Film, Computer Science, Anthropology, Government,plus many generalists...

If you have ideas you would like to express about Google maps, the product of Google and their car, and/or would like to contribute to this project, please contact glenn@artstation.org.uk.

This project is a You May Fund commission that was made possible by Safle with the financial assistance of the Arts Council of Wales. The You May Fund supports Festival activity by Welsh practitioners. Safle are the strategic organisation for art in the public realm in Wales. More information about Safle is available at www.safle.com

Biography

Artstation are Glenn Davidson and Anne Hayes, who met at Cardiff College of Art in 1976. Since then, they have organised events and exhibitions in galleries, museums and public spaces across the world. They have questioned their own practice through a fellowship in Cybernetics, regular lectures, seminars and invitations to the widest possible range of collaborators and partners. 



Graduating from live art and performance they have built complex large-scale public sculpture and installation in the most public of arenas, constructed from paper and air. They have developed multimedia projects with architects, county councils and refugee groups, using digital media, animation and 3D modelling. They have worked in the National Museum of Wales, and appeared on Blue Peter.

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