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Mirrors Behind the Curtain: Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Google...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:12:09 -0700

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Google Museum View Screenshot, ~Googlegeist ~

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: Palace of Versailles, Google Museum...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:09:49 -0700

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: Palace of Versailles, Google Museum View Screenshot, ~Googlegeist ~

Virtual Bootlegs: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Claude...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:24:00 -0700

Virtual Bootlegs: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Claude Monet,photoshopped Google Museum View screenshot taken while 3D Anaglyph mode, ~ Googlegeist ~

These Google Museum View screenshots of canonical artworks— taken while in 3D Anaglyph mode, an option provided by Google while in Museum View— are meant to be projected in a physical gallery and viewed with 3D glasses. Due to their 3D effect, and virtual origins, the screenshots enter the physical gallery as Virtual Bootlegs— blurring the line between the physical and virtual gallery space.

First Projected Virtual Bootleg Virtual Bootlegs: Portrait of...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:24:00 -0700

First Projected Virtual Bootleg

Virtual Bootlegs: Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Projection of photoshopped screenshot taken while in Google Museum View 3D Anaglyph mode, ~ Googlegeist ~

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Google...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:01:00 -0800

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Google Museum View Screenshot, ~Googlegeist ~

Doppelgänger Salon Style at The Getty ~ Googlegeist ~

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:54:00 -0800

Doppelgänger Salon Style at The Getty ~ Googlegeist ~

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: The Getty Center, Google Museum View...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:47:00 -0800

Mirrors Behind the Curtain: The Getty Center, Google Museum View Screenshot, ~ Googlegeist ~

Googlegeist: MBTC: Simulacrum Online exhibition inside Google...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:31:00 -0800

Googlegeist: MBTC: Simulacrum Online exhibition inside Google Street View of Google Museum View screenshots of Google’s 9-eyed camera caught in the reflections of mirrors.

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:30:00 -0800

Google Nike View

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Google Business View Camera Mask ~googlegeist~

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:34:00 -0800

Google Business View Camera Mask

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Google Business View Camera Mask ~googlegeist~

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:33:00 -0800

Google Business View Camera Mask

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Google Business View Camera Mask ~googlegeist~

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:33:00 -0800

Google Business View Camera Mask

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Google Business View Camera Mask ~googlegeist~

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:30:00 -0800

Google Business View Camera Mask

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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:29:00 -0800

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Google observes itself

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:11:00 -0800

Google observes itself

Smart Objects is excited to share the launch of Googlegeist:...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:01:00 -0800

Smart Objects is excited to share the launch of Googlegeist: Mirrors Behind the Curtain (Simulacrum)— An Online exhibition inside Google Street View, of Street View-based imagery.

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In December 2012, a Google photographer was paid to virtualize the Smart Objects gallery space— with Google Museum View screenshots displayed (of Google’s 9 eyed camera caught in the reflections of mirrors)— and it was successfully approved and uploaded to Google Street View(Business View) in the start of 2013.

Below is original statement for the series of screenshots installed in the gallery.

Over the past fifteen years Google has grown to become a ubiquitous omniscient entity, which has peered into almost every aspect of our public and private lives. It has documented everything from vast stretches of the earth’s terrain to the most personal emails. The word “Google” suggests a possible answer to almost every imaginable question. Google acts as both all-seeing God and prying Big Brother, a vast repository of objective fact and personal revelation.

Gibson’s series Mirrors Behind the Curtain reveals the self-censored workings of this all-seeing, all-knowing medium. The screenshots in this series are rare glimpses of Google’s elusive 9-eyed street view camera, busy at work, virtualizing the interiors of different museums, castles, and institutions of power around the world. Unlike normal street view though, in which Google’s car and camera have been easily masked out, the museums’ and castles’ plethora of mirrors present a situation where Google cannot cover its tracks. These images are ambivalent portraits of the often invisible, panoptic power of Google’s observation.

Virtual Bootlegs: Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:33:00 -0800

Virtual Bootlegs: Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van Gogh, Screenshot taken while in Google Museum View 3D Anaglyph mode, ~ Googlegeist ~

These Google Museum View screenshots of canonical artworks— taken while in 3D Anaglyph mode, an option provided by Google while in Museum View— are meant to be displayed in a physical gallery and viewed with 3D glasses. Due to their 3D effect, and virtual origins, the screenshots attempt to enter the physical gallery as Virtual Bootlegs— blurring the line between the physical and virtual gallery space.

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Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:48:00 -0800

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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:47:00 -0800

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Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:34:00 -0800

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