In a recent post, I proposed a distinction between two groups of artists that use Google Street View as part of their creative work:
1) Scavengers who treat the mapping service as a colossal mechanized digital photographer and
2) Performance and Installation artists who aim to have their work recorded by a passing Street View camera and see their piece included in the public Street View image stream.
While scavengers work primarily at a computer terminal in their office or studio, scouring through the photographs provided by the Street View machinery, performance and installation artists need to interact directly with the Street View scanning devices at specific locations and times in order to accomplish their creative projects.
Check out the gallery in the post for a selection of Street View performance and installation works:
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