The popularity of mapping and terrestrial visualisation tools is making itself widely felt in the web experience. The use of geolocation systems is becoming more widespread and is infiltrating the digital universe. Using these technologies, artists are exploring the desire to ‘locate’. The resulting works question this new geographical awareness arising from networked practices.

Brought together by curator Sylvie Parent, the artists Matthew Biederman (Montreal), Grégory Chatonsky (Montreal), Zahra Poonawala (Strasbourg, France) and Cheryl Sourkes (Toronto) benefited from residencies and production support from Agence TOPO in 2009-2010.

In Spectrum Survey, Biederman takes the measure of the electromagnetic waves that surround us. In Circulation, Chatonsky makes urban traffic the driving force behind a dialogue between a man and a woman. In Public Address System, Poonawala lets us discover the world through the voice of loudspeakers, and Sourkes proposes GeoTag, a web version of the game Geography.

Read the essay by Sylvie Parent - Géoweb : création de nouvelles géographies - which elaborates on the theme and describes the four selected projects.