questions:
How to look around rather than ahead?
If the point of view is anywhere, where should we focus?
I question and challenge the rules of the platform; the terms & conditions.
‘no fantastical imagery’
‘no unrealistic settings’
‘Characters may not use technology in extreme or unrealistic settings, and technology may not be portrayed as fantastical, dangerous or scary.’
How do I look at reality and at whose reality are we looking at?
I intervene in a given system but how much am I entangled in that particular system?
what is my position as a designer/artist/maker/user of software?
In what amount do I rely on Google? and what other platforms are part of my vocabulary?
How to become bigger than Google?
On which server am I working? Which server should serve me? and which should I serve?
How to look around rather than ahead?
engage more deeply into:
- location-based,
- algorithmic,
- mapping,
- urban vernacular
- & theoretical frameworks.
Nuance your own voice by triangulation: PRAXIS - RESEARCH - WRITING
We have developed cutting-edge face and license plate blurring technology that is designed to blur identifiable faces and license plates within Google-contributed imagery in Street View. If you see that your face or licence plate requires additional blurring, or if you would like us to blur your entire house, car or body, submit a request using the "Report a problem" tool. Please note, however, that once Google blurs an image, the effect is permanent. If you submit a request to have your house blurred from Street View imagery, all historical and future images of your house will also be blurred.
a blurred image shows us something that should not be seen. the original image gets obscured by a filter that reduces the detail resulting in a smooth blur, like looking through a translucent screen.
Blurred license plate in google streetview
Blurred face of a sex worker in the red light district in Amsterdam
Blurred real estate in Berlin. Many Germans requested Google to blur their property on Google Maps after many reviewed requests and blurred imagery Google decided that to discontinue Streetview in most parts of Germany because it was not profitable anymore.
In this picture there are forty people none of them can be seen.
from ‘How Not To Be Seen’ by Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1970)
HITO QUOTE #1:
I think it is important for myself you know to try to keep up with the latest consumer technology because the latest consumer technology expresses some kind of technological social political condition or contraction of desires and misunderstandings.
transcript from: “Being Invisible Can Be Deadly' | TateShots” watch
Example of a .svg image of a QR code
QR code printed on textile and sticked on a roof.
QR codes (short for quick response code) consist of black (or white) squares arranged in a square grid on a white (or black) background. The code can be read and processed by a computer which extracts and then displays the data. iPhones running IOS 11 and higher and some Android phones can scan QR codes natively. the camera scans and can for example redirects the user to an external url.
Most QR codes we come across during the day are being left unnoticed waiting to be scanned. A possible reason could be that we see QR codes as (often ugly) objects placed in the corner of advertisements and when being scanned will lead you to more advertisements. The QR code is like physical Spam, existing between the physical and digital world. Too cryptic to be understood by human eyes and too frequently displayed to be appreciated for its seemingly abstract pattern.
But what if we start to see the QR code as a portal to some other space? what if we build QR code mosaics in churches that will transcend us (when being scanned) to some greater place still unknown to us. If we would carve QR codes in stone we would a……