Emilio Vavarella

While Google tries to built a perfect world through its services Google Earth and Street View they are still one of the great sources to get every kind of glitches. Emilio Vavarella has discovered hundred of these errors and spent a lot of time traveling on street view mode to create The Google Trilogy, three different projects using the same tool. 

"The series of 100 digital photos called Report a Problem is the first part of the project, it is about the relationship between humans, power and technological errors. “Report a Problem” is the message that appears at the bottom of the Google Street View screen, which allows viewers to report a problem during the viewing of the place they are virtually visiting: missing censorship, wrong colors, random appearances. I traveled on Google Street View photographing all the “wrong landscapes” I encountered before others could report the problems and prompt the company to adjust the images. Common landscapes are transformed by Google’s unexpected technical errors into something new." - Emilio Vavarella.  See more;

In this post are published some pictures from Report a Problem, see the entire series here and the other 2 pieces from the trilogy called Michele’s Story and The Driver and the Cameras here.

MAPS by Kim Asendorf

Kim Asendorf just launched MAPS a new beautiful project where the maps are translated into abstract colourful compositions. There is not text either indications only there are some random functions which are applied every time the user refresh the page such as zoom, position and colors to get different results. It has been created using Google Maps technology actually Kim used the same way for the URL of the project than Google does, like maps.kimasendorf.com a detail I really liked. Explore it by yourself, it can get more abstract as deeper you go. See more;

Juxtapose by Daniel Schwarz

Fach & Asendorf Gallery is running a new exhibition called Juxtapose by Daniel Schwarz consisting in a series of images taken directly from Google Maps that expose distant places, far from society, shown simultaneously under the force of contrary seasons and weather phenomena at varying times. The images arise from glitches which are created automatically when Google Maps’ algorithm stitches images of updated photos with prior recorded ones together in a grid- like view. The glitched images force viewers to interrogate how technology changes our understanding of time, space and place. See more;

"Google Maps is the world’s most widely used mapping service. It influences our perception and understanding of the world and its geography, and since the technology was introduced in 2005, has become a ubiquitous day-to-day tool. Modern life is now unthinkable without it.

Although the satellite images give users a godlike power in jumping from one continent to the next in the blink of an eye, they are also highly abstracted from time, nature and their interrelationships. Google Maps images are not updated in real time, but instead stem from several months or years old datasets. Their exact dates remain unknown to the user." - Daniel Schwarz.

All images were taken directly from Firefox 16.0.2, without subsequent postproduction, editing or color correction.

See all the series at Fach & Asendorf Gallery.

Mo Marie

http://momarie.com/works/bukowskisleeping/

Mo Marie, a painter from USA tells us about how she has introduced her painting into digital and website;

"Having a website is a new experience for me, yes. While working toward it, I began making digital scans and photographs of my paintings and discovered that transforming my traditional paintings into digital files on the computer screen made them feel very different. To me, they feel like completely new works of art. This experience inspired me to try digital painting, and my current practice of using various brushes and styli with touch sensitive devices like iPad and iPhone grew from there." See more;

Mo Marie maintains an ongoing selection of her iPad paintings at http://momariewood.tumblr.com/ . She is also member of Phone Arts where she collaborates throught her iPhone paintings, have a look here. A general studio diary of her can be seen at http://diaryofmomarie.tumblr.com/. Mo Marie is  also part of the great collaborative collective Computers Club Drawing Society where she periodically makes beautiful drawings.

Mo Marie is continually in the process of documenting new and old traditionally made paintings for her website, where she displays them using Google Maps. If you click any of the 3 following screenshots it will open a huge photograph of a real painting (acrylic, watercolor) on a map, you can interact with the painting by exploring and zooming into it, it is a great experience, I really enjoy to appreciate such a texture!  If you click the zigzag shape under the map controls on the right it will open the original high resolution file of each painting. To see other paintings through the map option go here. 

iPad Paintings

iPhone Paintings

The t-shirt below is part of a new project by Mo Marie where she also uses the the computer and scanners to make clothing out of her paintings that appear in the google maps webpages on her website. The painting used for this t-shirt is called "Tropical Yokai" you can explore it here.
It is possible to buy it here.

Google Error by Marco Cadioli

"Google Error is the last of a series of Google Earth variations of Marco Cadioli, where the virtual globe is transformed in something else. Far from his original goal of 3d World representation, Google Earth is turned in a playground where experimenting with images overlaid on the surface of the earth, errors and quotations. Taking advantage of a program error in rendering surfaces in this case it becomes a machine to generate Op Art." - See more

Google Error by Marco Cadioli is being part of LA FIN DU MONDE at LaFiac.com, an online group exhibition curated by Caroline Delieutraz and Julien Levesque. I highly recommend to attend it, here.

See previous works by Marco Cadioli using Google Earth such as Google Melon and Abstract Journeys.

Street Views Patchwork by Julien Levesque

Street Views Patchwork is a work made by Julien Levesque in 2009, it is one of the most beautiful conceptual collages I have ever seen. It consists in a online collage series which shows nonexistent landscapes using 4 horizontally parts of existent landscapes around the world. It is basically four embedded horizontally views from Google Street View forming one hypothetical landscape. It is nice to see how different parts around the world fit really well each other.  The website refresh itself every 30 seconds more or less, and of course you can interact with the street view. See more;

See the website here.

via | @arambartholl 

Floating shiny knot

Floating shiny knot is a website which presents a virtual sculpture into a virtual world created by lots of  Google street view textures. The user can visit almost every place by searching the place or clicking on the map (on the top-right). It is possible to use two different textures for the shiny knot object, one chrome (pic above) and another glass (first pic below), it's really nice to see the environment reflected on. The project was created by @thespite (code), built with three.js, tweaking and optimisations by @mrdoob and it was inspired on Paul Lewis' Create your own environment maps article.  See more;

Floating shiny knot remind me a lot to The Digit by Slava Balasanov. Both are virtual chrome sculptures into the real but virtual world, in the case of Floating shiny knot the user uses the website and for The Digit the user must be IRL in Union Square, NY to see the chrome double-sided finger through the iPhone as it is an iPhone application.

I took some screenshots around Tokyo (click images to enlarge), feel free to go everywhere, visit the website here.

via | the creators project

Digital Detritus Dover by Peter Root

Digital Detritus Dover, 2011 by Peter Root is part of an on-going series of digital installations situated in Google Earth. It was created by building 3d digital models and locating and animating them in Google Earth using KML code. See more;

"The soundtrack was created using a well known song about the white cliffs of Dover." The project was created specifically for the LIVELIVEProject and Dover.

via Kim Asendorf