Project: Street Ghosts
streetghosts.net
by Marianna Stephania Hernández Aguilar and Ileana Muñoz Rodríguez
Paolo Cirio is an Italian artist,
born in 1979. He has done several projects in the disciplines of street-art,
net-art, software-art and video-art. His work revolves around subjects such as
the construction of identities through the new media, the problem of copyright
and ownership, and the conflict between the notions of private and public in
the contemporary world.
For
example, in 2012 he stole the information from Twitter and rated the political
affiliation of people (Persecuting US).
One year before he stole one million profiles from Facebook and republished
them in a fake dating website (Face to
Facebook Project). He also stole 3,000 books from Amazon and redistributed
them for free in his webpage (Amazon Noir).
The
project which we want to analyze is Street
Ghosts. It started in 2012, with the initiative of Paolo Cirio. It consists
in printing real size photographs of people found on Google Street View, and
placing them on the same spot where they were initially taken. The project
tries, not only to problematize our notions of what is private and what is not
in the context of new media, but it also questions the power of Google as a
corporation which has the freedom to use the identities of people on the
street, and then, claim the copyright to those images.
The
artist said in his website (http://paolocirio.net) that: “The obscure figures
fixed to the walls are the murky intersection of two overlain worlds: the real
world of things and people, from which these images were originally captured,
and the virtual afterlife of data and copyrights, from which these images were
retaken.”
The
project has been done in cities such as Berlin, New York and London; and
continues to this day.
2 comentarios:
This brings to light a serious issue in privacy and information. It seems that both public and commercial information is all being moved to Google for ease of use, but at what cost? Not to mention many people rely on the map function to navigate their lives while Google slips through laws and regulations to show them navigating life. Has Google become big brother? Marianna Stephania Hernández Aguilar and Ileana Muñoz Rodríguez paint a nice contrast while describing the work of Paolo Cirio.
Mike
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/03/keller-large-googles-glasses-could-ruin-the-wink/
I heard this commentary today about Google glasses crossing the line by ruining the wink ;)
He discusses the meaning of the wink and that with the capability of Google glasses to take a picture by winking, it is adding a new definition to the wink to mean that someone is possibly taking your picture. It's important for people to know that just by being in public they are fair game for photos and videos, whether they like it or not. I wonder if Google will also own the copyright to Google glasses images.
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