Sent: 18 August 2009 07:17
To: glenn@artstation.org.uk
Subject: Re: RGC
Hi Glenn,
Google Map is a straight forward example of using GPS and image.
Perhaps, the original motivation of this application is a service for the customer to give them the real view inside the map. It is also same concept of VR.
But right after they started this service many people complain not to show my face on it. To see the others means to expose mine. It is a similar structure of the mirror.
Then the whole Google map showing now the ghost town. Because there is no author. We need the responsible person who reflect to the world, who can only put humans into this ghost town. Artistic view and responsibility is needed for this.
It was not so much successful but an interesting example where done at Ars Electronica 2007. Gerfried use an airplane scanner, which is owned by a technical company in Graz, MSN own this company for competing to Google map, for scanning whole the city of LInz on the certain day along the festival 2007.
The residents were announced this activity and many people made signs or sculpture like objects on their gardens. It was interesting idea.
One another discussion is perhaps what is the difference to the conventional map. Map on the paper are filled with symbols. Those symbols can kick our Imagination but a real photographic images stops to imagine. It all fixed images.
It remains me the contrast between movie and animation. I remember one important aspect that is the voice or sound. I suppose sonic information is another important aspect.
To reverse Google car means to expose yourself to the image everywhere. It's a bit pity I can't stay in the UK longer. I must back to Oldenburg, Germany right after the show in Ireland.
Hope to see you again soon,
best,
Masaki Fujihata
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tourism comes to mind as the original intent … If you look at where Google has street viewed in the world, it looks very much like Google goes where American tourists may safely go - and no where else at all – in fact everywhere one might want to virtually go is not covered… you can see the politics of US relations by zooming to whole world flat view in Google Maps and dragging the street man slightly off its stand…. there blue lines show where Goggle Street View has been...no where interesting or culturally different – possibly Las Pandas problem ?
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