The Google Portrait Series by Aram Bartholl are a series of matrix-code drawings. These codes are Google URL search strings of the portrayed person. In this image, Aram searched for his name in German, English, Chinese and Korean.
“The Nine Eyes of Google Street View” is a the title of a new article on Art Fag City. It’s very nice collection of weird images in Google Street View. I like this one the best: a camera error on the 412 US-9W, Bethlehem, New York.
via trendbeheer
Billy Rennekamp made this Google Streetview highway clover intersection video. Endless!
found at vvork
Untitled Painting is the latest project of Thomas Eberwein. It’s a google maps flash mash-up inspired by Gerhard Richter’s series of overpainted photographs. You can paint on any location you want.
It took Rhett Dashwood several months to find the complete alphabet in Google Maps. You can find links to every single letter on his website. Very impressive!
G33 CON is the title of the solo exhibition of Jodi, a collective of two internet artists. This online flyer caught my attention … “geek concept art”. Here are 2 projects which you can see at Project Gentili in Prato, Italy, till May 23rd.
keyboard-skateboards
GLOBALMOVE.US, I can watch this Google Maps art piece for hours.
“Dead pixel in Google Earth” by Helmut Smits, 82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.
EDIT: You can’t find this so called pixel in Google Earth, it is conceptual piece of art.
“Google It” by Riley Harmin. Wall relief, handwritten with cat-5 cable (ethernet cable) and wall plates. Google is just one cable away.
Google launched the website “Chrome Experiments” today, to show off the capabilities of Javascript in web browsers. Of course they want to promote their own Chrome browser, which is still not available on the mac. On the website you can find 19 experiments made by some familiar names like Casey Reas, Josh Nimoy, Hi-ReS!, Karsten Schmidt, Mr.doob, …
My favorites so far are Browser Ball and BallDroppings.
This video is a compilation of all the experiments:
Browser Ball:
BallDroppings:
Swisstrains.ch is an impressive Google Maps application, you can follow every single train in Switzerland. It’s not GPS based, but on the punctual timetable, hé it’s Switzerland. You can click on a station to see which trains are leaving soon, but you can also click on a train, a small popup appears where you can click ‘Follow’. Now you’re a virtual bird’s eye view trainride through Switzerland.
