Connecting Data, Art and Location
From GPS tracking to autonomous agents, artists rethink movement and space while raising questions about the preservation of locative media art
April 2026; at the Living Media Art website, Marijn Bril looks back on the panel Connecting Data, Art and Location, presented at Transformation Digital Art, which explored artistic approaches to mapping, movement and data.
The panel Connecting Data, Art and Location, presented at LI-MA’s symposium Transformation Digital Art 2026, explored these questions through three artworks spanning more than two decades: Esther Polak’s AmsterdamREALTIME (2002), Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke (2007-ongoing), and Jan Robert Leegte’s The Wanderer (2025).