Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge
Here
is another article about how artists are using Google Earth Street View
to create serious art that comments on the nature of surveillance, the
tension between the democratic, impersonal, non-judgmental nine-eyed
camera and the efforts of the artist and the audience to read value and
meaning into the images, and so on. I still think of Jon Rafman
as the master of this new medium, but the article shows that many other
artists are presently also at work at harvesting and arranging these
images in novel ways. Coming across this piece reminded me that it is
about time I emptied my own folders of the GE Street View images I have
been collecting over the past year or so. To create this, I use only the
tools available (pivot and zoom) in the GE user interface. Nothing is
done to the image after I have saved it to the folder. I am still
relatively ambivalent about commentary: serious artists such as Rafman
offer no commentary and let the image speak for itself as art. I myself
am not ready to call my images art, although I do spend some time at
first trying to decide if the subject matter is worthy of harvesting and
then the best way to compose them image using the GE tools. So, just as
before, I will just toss them all out onto the table in no particular
order and with few comments.
Sante Fe
Aqua Fria, NM
These next three are from Lewter Shop Road between Chapel Hill and Apex, part of my daily drive to work for about four years in the 1990s.
Two from Miami Beach:
Miami:
Outdoor Pentacostal Church Service under a bridge
A series from "Cancer Alley," along the River between Baton Rouge and NOLA.
Key West
Tourists at Southernmost Point snap pictures of the Google Earth car.
A series from Sao Paulo, Brazil
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