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The launch of Google Earth Street View showcasing panoramic images of streets around the world has created many concerns for citizens. What if you are captured on camera and then put on Google Earth for all the world to see, and you don’t even know it? What exactly is being represented in this form of image mapping, and for whom? Should the capture of such images be considered as an infringement on citizen’s privacy rights?
This semester students in Intermedia 1 took a look at the digital representations of Montreal via the panoramic image found in Street View. Students were asked to consider the potential and limitations of the way streets are mapped on Google Earth. How is memory, movement, history, and the culture of a location captured or perhaps omitted from such representations? How might we insert new memories of old histories, or speak to personal and collective experiences embedded the streets of Montreal? [click to continue…]
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