A Google Street View shot taken at 12 Cheshire Street in London (right), alongside Paolo Cirio's re-creation of it.
(Credit: Paolo Cirio/Google )
Imagine turning a street corner and coming face-to-face with... yourself?
It could happen, if you've ever been captured by the Google Street View cameras. For his Street Ghosts project, artist Paolo Cirio prints human-scale pictures of people found on Street View and posts them where the shots were originally taken, thus placing the digital imagery firmly in the physical world.
"In this project, I exposed the specters of Google's eternal realm of private, misappropriated data: the bodies of people captured by Google's Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion at the precise spot in the real world where they were photographed," says the Italian artist, a fellow at New York's Eyebeam Art+Technology Center who is particularly interested in exploring the flow of mediated information.
Cirio prints his low-resolution colored Street Ghosts posters on thin paper, cuts along the outline, and affixes them to the walls of public buildings. So far, he has posted images in New ... [Read more]
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