Project Review: Kelly Kirshtner: In the Shoulder Season (Love Letter #2)

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Book Review| September 01 2020 Project Review: Kelly Kirshtner: In the Shoulder Season (Love Letter #2) Kelly Kirshtner: In the Shoulder Season (Love Letter #2), Facebook and Instagram: March 25–April 23, 2020. Nathaniel Stern Nathaniel Stern Nathaniel Stern is an artist, writer, and teacher between the departments of Art+Design and Mechanical Engineering, and the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance (2013) and Ecological Aesthetics: Artful Tactics for Humans, Nature, and Politics (2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (3): 91–98. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.473007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nathaniel Stern; Project Review: Kelly Kirshtner: In the Shoulder Season (Love Letter #2). Afterimage 1 September 2020; 47 (3): 91–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.473007 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search It's a note. A love letter. Or, more precisely, Love Letters, where each “letter” is awkwardly inscribed in the landscape, piece by slow and semi-continuous piece. Most of us are familiar with the general concept—if not practice—of GPS (Global Positioning System) art. Using live software to track a walk, run, or bicycle ride, the vestigial traces of our embodied performance turned dis-embodied data make lines and curves to construct a pencil-like drawing on internet-based maps. The familiar red traveled paths on Google and Apple graphics or satellite images are planned in advance to become dogs or bicycles—or, as my first few image search results revealed: dinosaurs, Darth Vader, and stick figures. But Kelly Kirshtner's ongoing series of mappings, and this particular piece—In the Shoulder Season (Love Letter #2) (2020)—took more than the standard twists and turns expected of one such drawing out. “Shoulder season” is an explicit... You do not currently have access to this content.