Jen Hamilton (Canada) and Jen Southern (UK) are artists who use Satellite Navigation devices to trace the routes people take through local environments and to make collaborative maps. During August and September 2005 they set up a 'Satellite Bureau' at the Creative Mwldan media centre in Cardigan as a base for their explorations.

The purpose of the bureau was to involve local people in making new maps of the area and the sea, and to find new ways of representing the data gathered. Local people were invited to take a walk or a journey determined by themselves, whether it was the route to work, to an historic building, to the sea, a walk for exercise or a meander based on more personal thoughts about location. The journeys were mapped with a gps (global positioning system) device. In these collaborative maps there is a powerful sense of people collaborating on a map of a place dependant on personal experience, rather than the measured assessment of a formal map.

A section of the map (80k)
A bigger section of the map (384k)