New 360° Street Thought Paintings

I am constantly amazed yesteryear the creative ways that developers travel the Google Maps API. Almost every calendar week I tin come upwardly across Google Maps based applications that astound me amongst their creativity in addition to then, in 1 lawsuit every blueish moon, I come upwardly across a novel application that is genuinely revolutionary.

The Metapanoramas Project is an amazing experiment that uses the Google Maps API to practice 360° bird Street View paintings. It is a projection which, inwards the words of the artist, "expands the two-dimensional limits of traditional painting".

The perceiver of the artwork is non limited to the initial thought that appears inwards front end of their eyes. The paintings tin endure explored equally yous would explore a Google Maps Street View. You tin pan exactly about 360° degrees, yous tin pan upwardly in addition to thought the heaven in addition to yous tin pan downward to thought the ground.

The write upwardly for the projection ends intriguingly amongst the artist's thoughts almost creating "a painted globe which tin endure expanded inwards all directions". Using the Google Maps API it is possible to link custom Street Views hence that users tin navigate from 1 panorama to another. So hopefully the Maetapanoramas Project may 1 24-hour interval evolve into a fully realised painted globe that users tin walk exactly about in addition to explore inwards Street View.

Since its introduction Google Maps Street View has been a constant root of inspiration to artists. It has inspired traditional landscape artists. Such equally those who participate inwards the the Virtual Paintout Project, who travel Street View equally the root reference for novel industrial plant of art.

It has inspired artists similar Jon Rafman, whose 9-Eyes Project is dedicated to collecting in addition to collating images establish on Google Maps Street View.

It has likewise featured prominently inwards the, normally digital, artefacts curated yesteryear the New Aesthetic blog, which explores how the agency nosotros expect at in addition to come across the globe is increasingly influenced yesteryear how the globe is viewed in addition to read yesteryear technology.

The Metapanoramas Project notwithstanding seems to me to endure something dissimilar to these other fine art projects. This projection is non hence much concerned amongst how the Street View photographic boob tube camera captures the globe in addition to hence shapes our visual perceptions but amongst how the engineering scientific discipline tin endure used to limited an private artist's ain aesthetic.

Though using the engineering scientific discipline of Street View the Metapanoramas Project has non but created a novel piece of occupation of fine art but appears to convey created a whole novel medium for art. And, thank yous to Malcolm McLuhan, nosotros all know that the medium is the message.