Sydney-based “creative collective,” The Glue Society, presented a pretty awesome project at last week’s the Miami art fair called “God’s Eye View” that depicts several biblical events as they might appear in the satellite imagery used for Google Earth. Along with The Crucifixion, they’ve got The Great Flood, The Garden of Eden, and the Parting of the Red Sea.
Nice work, and definitely thought-provoking, though I think that the emphasized part of this quote by one of the creators might be taking it a tad far:
We like to disorientate audiences a little with all our work. And with this piece we felt technology now allows events which may or may not have happened to be visualized and made to appear dramatically real ... As a method of representation satellite photography is so trusted, it has been interesting to mess with that trust.Other than something about that line that doesn’t sit properly for me in relation to this work, it’s a great-looking project and is a perfect example of creating compelling and important artistic work with the tools made available by technological advances.
Glue Society via CR Blog via Kottke
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