Ambient Imaging System to visualize the river, and its flows:

A small floatable apparatus is fitted with a GPS logging device and solar power source, and then tethered to a large weather balloon.

This entire assembly is designed and built to withstand various forms of mobility on, off and along the river, and its position is tracked in 10-minute intervals. Volunteers from several river-related organizations escort this hybrid apparatus as it travels 48 hours downstream during the festival.

An existing archive of 150 images of the river are sorted and geo-coded in terms of longitude, latitude, date and state of presence. These images correlate to the path of this journey in their temporal, ideological, material and cultural postures.

Participants can see these images and track the progress of the buoy via the project web-site's display in real-time of the journey, with parallel archive images at the same pace as the apparatus (go to: where@crooked.mobi).