Pigeon Blog

“Beatriz DaCosta’s Pigeon Blog (2006) used miniature air pollution sensors, GPS units, and transmitters attached to homing pigeons to evaluate and map local air quality.”[1]

This is the project Website address: http://www.pigeonblog.mapyourcity.net/.

“PigeonBlog provides an alternative way to participate environmental air pollution data gathering. The project equips urban homing pigeons with GPS enabled electronic air pollution sensing devices capable of sending real-time location based air pollution and image data to an online mapping/blogging environment. Pigeonblog is a social public experiment between human and non-human animals.”[2]

The image below is the screenshot of PigeonBlog.

 

[1] Edward A. Shanken, Art and Electronic Media, p.36

[2] http://www.pigeonblog.mapyourcity.net/