Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.
On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley
invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s
Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way.
Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes
ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a
seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…Street
View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the
scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping
platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View
made its debut on the web in November of 2008.An incredible
cast of real-life characters contributed their time, energy and talents
to creating pseudo-street life on Sampsonia Way. Please check out the scene breakdown, the participant page and the video documentation to learn more about the artists, groups and participants that made Street With A View possible.
Don’t miss the photos on the website.
Via FAD.