[NetBehaviour] Where is Obama? Crowd-Sourced Positioning System

[kim asendorf]

WHERE IS OBAMA? ( http://whereisobama.at/ )

The position of president is a state secret. The White House website shows only Barack Obama's schedule from the current day, but never dates beyond. The accuracy of this information is controversial.

Obama on the other hand knows your entire calendar.

WHERE IS OBAMA? is an artistic work which deals with the desire for control and the surveillance mania.

On http://whereisobama.at/ visitors can report the position of the President as usual by putting a marker on a Google map. We call it Crowd-Sourced Positioning System, or CSPS.
With all user inputs of the last few hours a probable position of President is calculated using a complex algorithm. If there are no entries Obama is suspected in the White House.

Every person in the world can now participate in the supervision of the President.


A project by Kim Asendorf, Ole Fach, Kyle McDonald and Jonas Lund.











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