Art from infrastructure : The art of Google Maps | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/03/art-infrastructure
Et je découvre aussi cette autre artiste très intéressante. décidément, ce matin, c’est fête on dirait.
JENNY ODELL, a San Franciscan artist, often finds inspiration in the landscapes she sees while flying overhead. If she spots a promising piece of Earth from a plane, she scours the relevant parts of Google Maps to investigate further. What she is looking for are odd, often industrial, forms and shapes—water-treatment facilities, swimming pools, railway yards, shipping containers and the like—whose images she can use in her digital prints.
(Her work has been displayed at the Google Maps headquarters in Mountain View, California.)
Ms Odell’s latest exhibition, “Infrastructure”, currently showing at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, examines the structures, networks and mechanisms necessary for supplying transport, commerce, power, utilities and drinking water. Among her inspirations are Mark Lombardi’s “Global Networks” graph drawings and Chris Burden’s “Metropolis II”, a more recent “kinetic” art project using toy cars.
