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Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's Museum View of Baroque European palacesobjects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible. While the monarchies and empires of the past used beauty as an expression of their authority, technology, in its mediation of the world, often operates without an aesthetic agenda. Throughout this series, the covert power of technology makes itself visible only through accidents such as glitches, a glimpse of the machine in the mirror, the AI blurring the faces of statuary.

Grand Illusion

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Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's Museum View of Baroque European palacesobjects of beauty... Read more

    Publisher: Mousse Publishing
    Publication Date: 01/06/2023
    ISBN13: 9788867496075, 978-8867496075
    ISBN10: 8867496077

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    Grand Illusion is a photographic series of screenshots from Google Cultural Institute's Museum View of Baroque European palacesobjects of beauty and manifestations of power whose gold encrusted ornamentation points to the colonial activities abroad that made this kind of wealth possible. While the monarchies and empires of the past used beauty as an expression of their authority, technology, in its mediation of the world, often operates without an aesthetic agenda. Throughout this series, the covert power of technology makes itself visible only through accidents such as glitches, a glimpse of the machine in the mirror, the AI blurring the faces of statuary.

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