Have My Location

Artist Nate Larson (born 1978)

Artist Marni Shindelman (born 1977)

Date2009-2013

MediumArchival pigment print

Dimensions24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Framed: 25 × 21 in.

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.94

Accession number 2020.94

On View

Not on view

Provenancepurchased by GAE LLC, Bentonville, AR, 2014 (in conjunction with the 2014 Crystal Bridges exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now); transferred to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 2020
Label TextNate Larson and Marni Shindelman use publically available GPS information embedded in Twitter’s geolocation software to randomly select, travel to, and photograph the precise locations where Twitter users have posted tweets.

As you read the text and look at the photograph, consider the effect of environment upon thought, speech, and online identity. Who are these anonymous Twitter users, and why were they struck by those particular thoughts in those exact places?
Markingsverso, l.l., label, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman / "Geolocation: Have My Location?". 2011 / Archival Pigment Print, 24" x 20" / Edition: 2/6 / We use publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the site in the real world. "Geolocation" anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data and probes the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks / www.larson-shindelman.com