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Beam me up, Scotty! The Photographs Teleported from Google Street View – Sylvain Campeau

Ciel variable 101 - STRATA | Essays
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Doug Rickard, Jon Rafman, Michael Wolf, Mishka Henner

August 5, 2019 [originally published in CV101 in Fall 2015] — It has been a few years now since artists discovered that they could put Google Street View to artistic and critical use. The best-known case is no doubt Jon Rafman, who is pursuing – inexorably, I might be tempted to say – his 9-eyes project, for which he shamelessly pillages the Internet image bank that contains pictures taken by directional cameras affixed to Google Street View (GSV) cars…

Jon Rafman, 9 eyes – Christelle Proulx, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Ciel variable 95 – CYBER / ESPACE / PUBLIC | Portfolios
Authors: Christelle Proulx | Artists: Jon Rafman

May 30, 2018 [originally published in CV95 in Fall 2013] — The “nine eyes” in Jon Rafman’s project refer to the photographic device mounted on the roofs of Google cars. These cars have been travelling the world’s roads since 2007, equipped with cameras with nine lenses, taking pictures of streets – images automatically in street view – for use with the Google Maps tool…

Jon Rafman, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View / Emmanuel Galland, De Lafontaine à Racine, en passant par Bossé et Talbot – Catherine Lebel Ouellet

Ciel variable 92 – TRUE NORTH | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Catherine Lebel Ouellet | Artists: Emmanuel Galland, Jon Rafman

September 18, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

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