GIS X Visual Arts X Science Data Education

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Geospatial Glitch Art was born through circumstantial happenstance, when I was in a relationship with a GIS Analyst, in a doctoral program promoting geospatial literacy, and my parents gifted me an iPad.

Through our team's research at the University of Vermont concerning multi-hyperspectral imagery of agricultural systems, as a neuroscientist, I became skeptical of the detachment in trust dynamics between human users and remote geospatial data.

After hypothesizing (by means of enthusiastic procrastination) geospatial sticking glitch frequency to be higher in the arctic and antarctic regions (due to multitude of factors, such as population, relevancy, usage, etc), I started Geospatial Glitch Art!

Geospatial information sciences (GIS) provides an unprecedented toolkit to examine and govern (with a grain of salt) the geocentric world. From examining sustainability factors such as methane responsibility to space trash tracking toward far more applications, GIS tools have provided a detached, yet peripheral sense of the world around us.

Geospatial Glitch Art demonstrates through a visual medium, thereby borrowing tools from empirical aesthetics and science communication, the fragility of visual scientific data, and (even though glitches are not, per se, anthropogenic manipulation) errors in visual portrayal may become misleading. Therefore, let's develop our visual data literacy together!

I am always open to advice, training, or mentorship in new open source methods of increasing the (perceived) empiricism of my artwork! To date, within this project's scope, I have utilized tools such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, GQIS, ArcGIS (trial), Adobe (trial), iPad/iPhone generic editing tools, along with other experiments.

RIGHT: "Madonna and Child of the Melting Snow"

Coordinates: (80.8898174, -14.2825226)