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Yassan (Yasushi Takahashi, 1977 - ) is a Japanese artist, and well-known as a one of pioneer in GPS drawing.

Biography
Born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Inter Media Art. Studied under Tadashi Kawamata while in school.

In 2008, his first work "MARRY ME (7,163.67km)", which he drew across the Japanese archipelago, was authorized by Guinness World Records in 2010. This work was the first to be entered in the Guinness World Records in the category of "Largest GPS Drawing".

In 2015, he circumnavigated the world and drew "PEACE on Earth (60,794.07 km) " across five continents. It is the largest work of art in existence, although it has not been certified by Guinness World Records.

In 2019, he was featured in Google's documentary series Google Stories.

In 2021, he launched GPSART.info, a portal site for GPS drawing enthusiastic.

Works
Yassan has been working in a variety of fields with the mission of creating a culture of drawing with GPS. He thinks GPS drawing as a new type of land art, combination of road-scape and urbanization.

MARRY ME
Yassan's first GPS drawing. He decided to make the largest marriage and came across the method of GPS drawing by accident. After that, he began to travel across the Japanese archipelago with GPS.

During this travel, he touched by the charms of many regions that had only known about in books. That was the starting point of his career.

#PEACEonEarth
Yassan traveled around the world with GPS, which was turning on/off by local people.

The final result was the largest message for the world’s peace. (“PEACE” which made by people around the world)

This project was supported by Japan Airlines, and made a documentary film on YouTube.

Road to “Entrance to an Unnamed Place”
He made a GPS Drawing of the homage of Nigel Hall's sculpture “Entrance to an Unnamed Place” and displayed at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

Circle Walk Series
He inspired by Richard Long's walking sculptures and began to make a series of "Circle Walk" on various cities in Japan and the other countries. The radius of the circle were 3.141km, same to the pi.

GPSART.info
Portal site for GPS art courses. GPS artists are enable to post their GPS art rout plans for funs.