{"id":5367,"date":"2016-02-07T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2016-02-07T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T16:23:49","slug":"abstract-googlism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/archives\/5367","title":{"rendered":"Abstract Googlism"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you probably know, I have this new passion, cyber-photography – or screenshooting, if you prefer (I’m not sure whether there is a name for this type of image production). I have a blog about aerial images of prisons<\/a>, and I occasionally post photos of interesting places I find on earth (and sometimes beyond<\/a>).<\/p>\n

One of the most prolific genre of this kind of imagery is blunders, mistakes, oddities<\/a> created by the various algorithms, that people find hilarious (and sometimes I do too). I was fiddling with Google Earth the other day, and I started to look for art (specifically sculptures), just to see what the software could do. I went to Rome, one of the most meticulously reconstructed cities, both on Apple and Google maps. From a distance, everything seems the same. But if you look close, you obviously find approximation. I don’t feel this a mistake at all. On the contrary: it’s the software trying to figure out what is looking at (as we often do with art). I went to Ponte Sant’Angelo<\/a>, a beautiful bridge with baroque statues of angels<\/a>. This is what they looked like (click preview to enlarge):<\/p>\n

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Pretty amazing: I wish I had a 3D printer to make one. I also went to look at the bronze angel on top of Castel San’Angelo<\/a> (click preview to enlarge):<\/p>\n

\"statue\"<\/a>Then I went to Florence, to see the Equestrian Monument of Cosimo de’ Medici in Piazza della Signoria<\/a> as seen by Google Earth (click preview to enlarge). Could this be a new sculpture style? Googlism?<\/p>\n

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