Library of Congress Home. The Universal Texture. Images via Clement Valla. These artists (...) counter the database, understood as a structure of dehumanized power, with the collection, as a form of idiosyncratic, unsystematic, and human memory. They collect what interests them, whatever they feel can and should be included in a meaning system. They describe, critique, and finally challenge the dynamics of the database, forcing it to evolve.1 I collect Google Earth images. I discovered them by accident, these particularly strange snapshots, where the illusion of a seamless and accurate representation of the Earth’s surface seems to break down. I was Google Earth-ing, when I noticed that a striking number of buildings looked like they were upside down. The competing visual inputs I had noticed produced some exceptional imagery, and I began to find more and start a collection. 3D Images like those in Google Earth are generated through a process called texture mapping.
Google Earth's textures however, are not shallow or flat. Notes: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Kennyruby: effraie el capitan. Home. Equivalences of batteries and cell. Collection d'appareils photo - Camera collectio...