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‘Instravel - A Photogenice Mass Tourism Experience’ by Olivier Kmia.

https://dpa.portrait.gov.au/dpa-finalist/selfie-factory/

But the analogy is deeply misleading, because something completely different happens when you share a picture on Facebook than when you bore your neighbors with projected slide shows. When you put an image on Facebook or other social media, you’re feeding an array of immensely powerful artificial intelligence systems information about how to identify people and how to recognize places and objects, habits and preferences, race, class, and gender identifications, economic statuses, and much more.”

Street View Camera That Saw Me by Ed Panar.

“Agoraphobia & anxiety limit my ability to travel, so I've found another way to see the world #GoogleStreetView”

GSV series ‘You Are Not You Anymore’ by Joris Hermans.

From an article by Lewis Bush ‘Nothing but Blue Skies’ on the Hatje Cantz blog.

“The reflex for picking out orphaned images stood up and declared itself. Noting that the everyday plethora of lo-fi images on my screen could at times pander more credibly to my personal narrative than photographs I took myself, which could be heavily influenced or defined by applied photography, I started to lean into a practice free of those implications. Oil painting comes laden with its own meaning—not that I was relying on that alone, since I don’t paint photorealistically. Rather, I liked the playfulness and leeway in overstating certain tactile qualities of the image, prone to being lost in compression, while assimilating or simplifying other aspects. It allowed me to manipulate a photograph without changing its essence as I perceived it and gave me a new angle in how I saw and presented images where up till now I had been dependent on choices in editing.”

Some Los Angeles Apartments (2013) by Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson is a remake of the original book by the American artist Ed Ruscha, published in 1965. The occasionally grainy and unfocused Google-pictures in Jóhannsson's book give, however, associations to a theme that in one sense has become all-pervasive and considerably more relevant today than in Ruscha's era: surveillance. Google's enthusiasm for documentation is today a part of a literally quite different, and more extensive and disagreeable, picture universe than the Ruscha-photographs were, spread as they were in a low quantity amongst art enthusiasts.

The online discussion that erupted since the project went online, shows that you don’t need anyone’s permission to debunk someone’s ‘apparent’ privacy. It is interesting to see that this project effectively shows how people think about being visible online, even though in daily life, people hardly seem to be concerned.

The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel  For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world.  By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and subjects. The dust jacket of the book contains all 15,000 web-links used by Kurt Caviezel to create this body of work. From the foreword by Joachim Schmid: Through years of camera surveillance the artist has compiled a virtually unreal amount of images, which have all been harvested from webcams. The quantity of images is of crucial importance here, because quantity (as is the case with many collections of things) at some point turns into quality. Only abundance enables the detection of recurring patterns. May the single image be just funny or banal or vacuous, in a series of similar ones it becomes a building block of knowledge. By sequencing kindred images, Caviezel makes order emerge from the torrent of images.    

Full article on ASX.

"What he ended up with is a jumble of violence, exploitation, joy rides, drugs and other illegal activities. It is a view of a country struggling with a shifting economic and cultural landscape, one where technology can create or amplify crisis and where cyberbullying, revenge porn and "slut shaming" have gone viral."

A different use of images taken from the internet...