Clement Valla is an artist and programmer based in Brooklyn, New York whose art explores the ways humans perceive the world through the computer lense. He is interested in processes that produce various glitches and unfamiliar artifacts that skew reality as we know it.
'Postcards from Google Earth' is an ongoing series of screenshots from Google Earth that captures such anomalies where the reality of the world around us is warped in unfamiliar ways. "I discovered strange moments where the illusion of a seamless representation of the Earth’s surface seems to break down," Valla explained his work. The artist first thought that what he'd seen were actually glitches, but upon closer inspection realized they actually weren't. "They are an edge condition—an anomaly within the system, a nonstandard, an outlier, even, but not an error," Clement clarified. The skewed and floating look draws our attention to how the system, Google Earth, works and what processes happen when the maps are compiled. "These uncanny images focus our attention on that process itself, and the network of algorithms, computers, storage systems, automated cameras, maps, pilots, engineers, photographers, surveyors and map-makers that generate them" Valla added.
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The car looks like it's leaving a trail behind! Like a cartoon turbo or something!
Perhaps Clement Valla is an artist but this is not Clements artwork. Google Earth created the "art". If computer glitches are art then I have a few programs on my computer that should be in the Louvre.
Now I got of what some of them remind me of: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí. The clocks also look like they're melting: the-persis...26461e.jpg
I'm feeling my frustration when trying to link together roads in Sim City when the terrain gets a little difficult.
Five pages of this when most people get the point from the first photo?
"The artist first thought that what he'd seen were actually glitches, but upon closer inspection realized they actually weren't. "They are an edge condition—an anomaly within the system, a nonstandard, an outlier, even, but not an error," Isn't that pretty much what a glitch is, a temporary anomaly that happens under certain conditions?
Some of these pictures (OK, maybe 1 or 2) don't seem off to me... Some roads around me, look (and feel) that way up close! :(
Perhaps Clement Valla is an artist but this is not Clements artwork. Google Earth created the "art". If computer glitches are art then I have a few programs on my computer that should be in the Louvre.
Now I got of what some of them remind me of: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí. The clocks also look like they're melting: the-persis...26461e.jpg
I'm feeling my frustration when trying to link together roads in Sim City when the terrain gets a little difficult.
Five pages of this when most people get the point from the first photo?
"The artist first thought that what he'd seen were actually glitches, but upon closer inspection realized they actually weren't. "They are an edge condition—an anomaly within the system, a nonstandard, an outlier, even, but not an error," Isn't that pretty much what a glitch is, a temporary anomaly that happens under certain conditions?
Some of these pictures (OK, maybe 1 or 2) don't seem off to me... Some roads around me, look (and feel) that way up close! :(