Traces - John Wild

Traces
Metal plaques and GSM data
2003 - Ongoing

John Wild

‘It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.’

The development of distributed networked computing has created a virtual layer of space, a meta-Landscape of data – ‘dataSPACE’.

Increasingly, physical space is being overlaid by layers of dataSPACE, connected and interwoven by the creation of everyday data.

Activities such as using mobile phones, wireless computers, GPS systems, or purchasing items containing RFI tags etc, all mediate between physical space and dataSPACE creating ‘data-shadows’, marks indelibly etched into the hardware of dataSPACE.

John Wild has collected the GSM location data created by his own mobile phone and converted it into a series of metal plaques that have been placed back at the locations indicated by the data.

Traces is an ongoing project mapping Johns' existence through the shadows his phone produces within dataSPACE.

Data Plaques - Various Locations

Thurs 16 August 2003.

Name John Wild Number 447974257030 Date Thurs 16 August 2003 Time 07:57 Locality London Fields Rail Station, London, E8 3QS Eastings 534795 Northings 184548 Precision (metres) 775

Name John Wild Number 447974257030 Date Thurs 16 August 2003 Time 08:59 Locality Essex Road Rail Station, London, N1 8TF Eastings 532176 Northings 183987 Precision (metres) 774

Name John Wild Number 447974257030 Date Thurs 16 August 2003 Time 10:58 Locality Royal Courts of Justice, London, WC2A 2HE, Eastings 530659 Northings 181259 Precision (metres) 500

Name John Wild Number 447974257030 Date Thurs 16 August 2003 Time 14:59 Locality Dalston, London, E8 3ND Eastings 533768 Northings 184139 Precision (metres) 774

Name John Wild Number 447974257030 Date Thurs 16 August 2003 Time 17:56 Locality Cambridge Heath Rail Station, London, E2 9DG Eastings 534830 Northings 183600 Precision (metres) 775

Mon 23 Aug, 2004

Name John Wild Number 447974257030 Date Mon 23 Aug, 2004 Time 13:23 Locality Gibbons Rec Grd London NW10 9BX Eastings 523018 Northings 180877 Precision (metres) 652

Tue 13 Feb, 2005

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Tue 13 Feb, 2005 Time 14:07 Locality London Fields Rail Station London E83QS Eastings 534794 Northings 184546 Precision (metres) 784

Sun 15 Apr 2007

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Sun 15 Apr, 2007 Time 23:56 Locality London Fields Rail Station London E83QS Eastings 534795 Northings 184548 Precision (metres) 775

Mon 16 Apr 2007

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 16 Apr, 2007 Time 11:58 Locality Cambridge Heath Rail Station London E29DG Eastings 534830 Northings 183600 Precision (metres) 775

Tue 17 Apr 2007

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Tue 17 Apr, 2007 Time 10:59 Locality Dalston London E83ND Eastings 533768 Northings 184139 Precision (metres) 774

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Tue 17 Apr, 2007 Time 14:58 Locality Hackney Central Rail Station London E81HA Eastings 534884 Northings 184932 Precision (metres) 774

Sat 29 Sep, 2007 (King X – Drift)

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Sat 29 Sep, 2007 Time 21:30
Locality Kings Cross Thameslink Rail Station London WC1H8BJ Eastings 530405 Northings 182868 Precision (metres) 450

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Sat 29 Sep, 2007 Time 20:45 Locality Kings Cross Tube Station London NW12SB Eastings 530264 Northings 182926 Precision (metres) 500

Mon 15 Jun, 2009 (Leytonstone :: Traces)

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 12:23 Locality Leytonstone Tube Station London E114QW Eastings 539342 Northings 187298 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 12:44 Locality BRIDGE 2 London E114QW Eastings 539342 Northings 187298 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 12:52 Locality BRIDGE 1 London E114QW Eastings 539342 Northings 187298 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 13:07 Locality GRANLEIGH RD London E114PJ Eastings 539121 Northings 186647 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 13:22 Locality Leytonstone High Road Rail Station London E113HG Eastings 539484 Northings 186647 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 13:44 Locality GREEN MAN ROUNDABOUT London E111HT Eastings 539539 Northings 187601 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 Jun, 2009 Time 13:56 Locality BUSHWOOD RD London E113HG Eastings 539484 Northings 186647 Precision (metres) 732

Name John Wild Number 447753383361 Date Mon 15 JUNE, 2009 Time 14:45 Locality CATHALL RD London E113PL Eastings 539304 Northings 186332 Precision (metres) 732