2006

Polar Wandering

Layla Curtis spent three months in Antarctica carrying out an extensive psycho-geographical exploration and creating a continuous line drawing charting her journey.

Longitudinal and latitudinal data recorded on a personal GPS tracking system was logged on the project website to create a 27,856 mile long, interactive web based drawing embedded with photographs and drawings.  

A suite of 10 limited edition screen prints, focusing on specific points and incidents along the line were also produced.

Layla Curtis was awarded an Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica jointly sponsored by The British Antarctic Survey. This project was developed in collaboration with Locus+.

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Polar wandering, 2006

Internet based interactive drawing, dimensions variable

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2004

Message in a Bottle from Ramsgate to the Chatham Islands
Fifty bottles containing messages were released into the sea near Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Kent. Their intended destination, The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is the nearest inhabited land to the precise location on the opposite side of the world to Ramsgate Maritime Museum. 

Several of the bottles are being tracked using GPS technology and are programmed to send their longitude and latitude coordinates back to Ramsgate every hour. 
The information they transmit is used to create a real time drawing of their progress.

 
Commissioned by Turner Contemporary

2002

Souvenirs from Manchester

Souvenirs from Manchester is a collection of over 300 souvenirs, each emblazoned with the word 'Manchester', collected by the artist during a ten day journey by Greyhound bus to a selection of the forty-one places in the USA named Manchester.

The installation of souvenirs was commissioned by UMIM and exhibited in Fabrications at CUBE, Manchester, UK.

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Souvenirs from Manchester, 2002

Mixed media installation, dimensions variable

Installation view

2001

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Everywhere I've Ever Been, 2001

Flash animation

Cab Routes
One Week in London

Cab Routes One Week in London traces the routes made by cab driver Jason Brown as he ferried passengers across London during a specific week. Created before GPS navigation systems were commonplace in London taxis, the artists asked the cab driver to keep a record of his journeys using a red felt tip pen to draw onto photocopied maps of the city. The resulting lines are animated to create a one minute drawing.

Cab Routes One Week in London was commissioned by Cab Gallery - a project curated by Paul Stolper and Jason Brown.

www.cabgallery.com

 

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Cab Routes - One Week in London, 2001

Flash animation