Larson Shindelman (Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman)
(American, estab. 2007)

Geolocation (2009 - 2019)
In the long-term project, Geolocation (2009 - 2019), I work with collaborator Marni Shindelman to repurpose publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. Our act of making a photograph anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data in the real world and also probes the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks. The project also investigates the way that social media has upended the flow of information in contemporary life, from social justice activism to disinformation political campaigns. The project has manifested over 17 site-responsive portraits of communities across the United States, and internationally in England, Canada, Russia, and Qatar.  Selections from the larger project have been recently exhibited at the George Eastman Museum in New York, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in South Carolina, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, and numerous others. Our first monograph Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream was published in 2016 by Flash Powder Press and our second monograph #Gratitude is currently in the design phase.