{"id":12673,"date":"2010-01-07T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/01\/07\/12673.html"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:30:18","slug":"automated-art-and-intent-inter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/01\/07\/automated-art-and-intent-inter\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated art and intent: interpreting Street View photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last August, Canadian artist Jon Rafman posted an essay, with photos, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfagcity.com\/2009\/08\/12\/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view\/\">The Nine Eyes of Google Street View<\/a>. It's an interesting and thoughtful and occasionally slyly funny piece about photography and art and interpretation, even in the absence of an artist per se:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[This] new form of photography may have removed the photographer from the mechanical process, but Street View photographs nonetheless remain cultural texts demanding interpretation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also has some thoughts about curating&mdash;the images he shows are, of course, his conscious choices from among the collection he's chosen from the Street View photos that various bloggers have chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Then, too, although there's no conscious mind behind the framing of each individual Street View photo, Google did specify the original criteria: camera height, choice of streets to drive, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like some of of Rafman's asides:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Even though Google places a comment, 'report a concern' on the bottom of every single image, how can I demonstrate my concern for humanity within Google's street photography?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don't feel that his concluding paragraph is entirely supported by the rest of the essay, but I do like the side note\/caption preceding that final paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is we who must make sense of Google's record of our experience, for good or for ill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thanks to Annalee for <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5442356\/the-future-history-of-everyday-life-in-pictures\/gallery\/\">pointing to the article<\/a> at io9.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, Canadian artist Jon Rafman posted an essay, with photos, called The Nine Eyes of Google Street View. It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}