Jon Rafman: A Collection of Google Street Views (2008–)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · art, google, photography, surveillance
Jon Rafman has spent a considerable amount of time capturing and compiling Google Street View images that fulfill an artistic quality rather than purely informative.
Author’s commentary (ArtFagCity)
Project website (googlestreetviews.com)
Project website (9-eyes.com, (archived))
Vol 1: PDF (2008, 15 MB, updated on 2016-12-25)
Vol 2: PDF (10 MB, updated on 2016-12-25)
Vol 3: PDF (2009, 11 MB)
Sixteen Google Street Views (2009)
Within Which All Things Exist and Move (catalogue, with Gabor Szilasi, 2010, 44 pp, added on 2018-12-3)
Eric Michaels: Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · aboriginal art, anthropology, art, australia, ethnography, film, photography, postmodernism, television
“Bad Aboriginal Art is the extraordinary account of Eric Michaels’ period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on remote Aboriginal communities.
Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, Michaels records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into the technology of broadcasting. Michaels’s analyses in Bad Aboriginal Art will disrupt and redirect current debates surrounding the theory and practice of anthropology, ethnography, film and video making, communications policy, and media studies—no less than his work has already disrupted and redirected the cultural technologies of both the Warlpiri and Australian technocrats.”
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1994
ISBN 0816623414, 9780816623419
203 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-8-26)
Comment (1)Chris Jenks (ed.): Visual Culture (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · advertising, aesthetics, art, phenomenology, photography, pop art, popular culture, postmodern, technoscience, television
In Visual Culture the ‘visual’ character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, ‘vision’ and the ‘visual’ are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.
Publisher Routledge, 1995
ISBN 0415106230, 9780415106238
Length 269 pages
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