The Peruvian Nazca lines are world famous. They are giant geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert which only reveal their contours from the air or the mountains. These almost 3000-year-old works of art served as models for the NASCA project (Navigation As Source for Creative Art). The drawings were made during the project not in desert rock, but rather using GPS movement patterns of smartphones, iPods and tablets on digital maps.
A llama with a hat in Bruck’s town centre, a giant flower on the school sports ground and abstract art in the lanes of Mixnitz – these are only a few of the works of art which the pupils conjured up on the landscape using their own movements. The GPS coordinates were recorded and the movement patterns of the children and young people were transmitted to a digital map, forming a drawing.
The necessary app was developed by staff of the NASCA project in cooperation with the pupils. The graphics produced can be seen at www.nasca.at, where the app is also available for free download for iPhones, iPods and Android devices.