Google Map’s street view can be rather intrusive, capturing unbeknownst everyday people in the midst of their daily routine. But Paolo Cirio’s project Street Ghosts seeks to transform that intrusion into works of public art; further immortalizing that intrusion.
“In this project, I exposed the specters of Google’s eternal realm of private, misappropriated data: the bodies of people captured by Google’s Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion at the precise spot in the real world where they were photographed.
Street Ghosts hit some of the most important international Street Art “halls of fame” with low-resolution, human scale posters of people taken from Google Street View. These images do not offer details, but the blurred colors and lines on the posters give a gauzy, spectral aspect to the human figures, unveiling their presence like a digital shadow haunting the real world.”
– Paolo Cirio.
Ebor Street, London. (Courtesy of Paolo Cirio.)
80 East Houston Street, New York. (Courtesy of Paolo Cirio.)
214 Lafayette Street, New York. (Courtesy of Paolo Cirio.)
Dircksenstraße / Rochstraße, Berlin. (Courtesy of Paolo Cirio.)
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