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德国艺术家Daniel Schwarz 创作的“并列”将谷歌地图中相同地方，不同季节的照片拼合在一起 。
‘juxtapose’ is 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.
谷歌地图是世界上最大的在线地图阴影服务，改变人类对世界的感知认识，也成为生活中重要的工具。卫星在地球大气层外拍摄的这些照片并非实时更新，而是一般是几个月或者几年之前，但到底是什么时间的，用户也不得而知。“并列”系列将谷歌地图中相同地方，不同季节的照片拼合在一起 。希望人们重视是技术是如何改变我们认知的时空与地点。
艺术家，策展人Eno Henze对该项目的评价大略：每种技术环境发展出的媒介都会提供一个看似完美的带有“故障”展示方式，但想要发现真相，需要到背后去看的更深。在当今程序写出的虚拟现实世界，“故障”是一种充满歧义的现实性。虽然一切势头都彰显出科技的进步，但我们依旧不能完全相信虚拟世界。Daniel Schwarz便对谷歌在线地图找到这一“故障”，上面的图片是很多年前，并不能及时更新。技术的片面与局限凸显。
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.
‘juxtapose’ is 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.All images were taken directly from Firefox 16.0.2, without subsequent postproduction, editing or color correction.
Eno Henze, artist and curator of the NODE 13 – Forum for Digital Arts described the project like this: “Every kind of technology produces its own surface and artefacts and therefore constitutes a medium on its own. If we discover faults on a perfect surface, we may get the impression of looking into the medium and seeing its true self.These faults, known as “glitches” among programmers, seemingly produce truthfulness in our ambiguity-filled world of modern media by revealing technology’s true identity.Therefore distrust of all media representations is raised because they confirm our suspicion that things are not as they seem. At the same time they reassure us of our belief in progress because we still feel in control of identifying faults and therefore safe from drifting into a virtual reality.
Daniel Schwarz’s pictures are glitches he found on the online mapping service “Google Maps”. The continuum of media starts to decay when it’s off the beaten track. The technical tool does not work well in nature.”Exhibited at the Fach & Asendorf Gallery, NODE13 – Forum for Digital Arts in Frankfurt and Enter 6: Biopolis in Prague.
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