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07.12.02 RealTime, personal psychogeography in GPS.
RealTime is a project which equipped with a palmtop with a GPS (Global Positioning System) transmitter all the citizens of Amsterdam who chose to participate for two months, for the purpose of drawing the city as it's experienced through personal movements. That is, each citizen has an invisible map of the city in his mind, and he uses it for his movements. This work tries to visualize these mental maps using the movements of its citizens. Different ways of moving characterize different individual psychogeographies: those of an urban bicycler, for instance, clearly differ from those of a person who moves using the public transport. Each person follows his life space in common places, intersecting it with the others'. It's the city itself which traces, through its cells/inhabitants, its intimate paths, drawing its energy lines on a black background. Realized within the broader exhibition 'Maps of Amsterdam 1866-2000', in the Amsterdam City Archive, in collaboration with Esther Polak and Jeroen Kee, RealTime has given to all those who voluntarily took part in it a personalized printout of their movements, something like a diary written from high above.