UNIT 1 Speed Project #1: Landscape Photography from Bed

DUE MONDAY JAN 31.

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow | Exhibitions | Jon Rafman - 9-Eyes of Google  Street View
Jon Rafman, Nine Eyes

Using the lecture “Landscape Photography from Bed” and the essay Screen Memories as a reference, make a project that uses screenshots as a lens for virtual landscape photography.

  1. Review the prompts below
  2. Produce a single image, or make a series of images.
  3. Add the images you made to a blog post.
  4. Add a few lines of text to the blog post explaining your process and thinking.
  5. Title your blog post with your name and project title.
    (ex. StreetCam SnowScape by Claire Hentschker)
  6. Select Unit 1 AND Project 1 as categories for the post.

Your screenshots can be collaged together, edited, presented in multiples, or combined with other media. Use one of the prompts below as a jumping off point, or interpret this speed project in your own way if you have an idea that you are excited about that combines elements of landscape photography, visiting places virtually, and screenshots.

Prompts:

1. Take a series of landscape photographs through a surveillance camera.

Do some research online and find websites with streaming cams. Check out www.Insecam.org, Google street view, Open street Cam. Find moments worth documenting.

A screen shot from google street view depicting a clown with green hair getting into the drivers seat of a green van.
From 9 Eyes By Jon Rafman https://9-eyes.com/

2. Curate and document a fictional landscape in a video game

Consider the virtual landscapes you come across in a video game and how you can use their environments to curate photographs. Create images that capture a moment.

Julius Redillas, screen still from "Beach," (2015). All images courtesy the artist.
Julius Redillas, “Beach” (2015) https://hyperallergic.com/309058/an-artist-takes-up-residence-in-second-life/
Shing Yin Khor recreated Robert Smithson’s Land Art piece Spiral Jetty in their Animal Crossing museum
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/virtual-museum-nintendo-animal-crossing-1824990

3.Insert unexpected elements into a landscape using an image editing tool.

Use the implied “truth” of a screenshot to fabricate a landscape. You can use tools like Photoshop in the Browser to layer images. Create a moment that never happened.

Image result for Sjezus zeg, Zilla
Sjezus zeg, Zilla Zilla van den Born https://www.behance.net/gallery/17206525/Sjezus-zeg-Zilla

“As part of my graduation project I went to Southeast Asia. At least, that’s what I made my classmates, friends, family and even my parents believe. Meanwhile, I stayed home and travelled to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos from behind my desk. I did this to show people that we filter and manipulate what we show on social media. Thereby we create an online ideal world which reality can no longer meet.”

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