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Alternative Cloud Research is a response to the experience of virtual travel. The project consists of an automated* web archive that continuously searches, stores and displays clouds found on Google Street View. As images accumulate I am able to animate them in a series of loops. Shown here is a video of 500 frames running at 15 frames per second.
*alternativecloudresearch.com uses a public GPS dataset to generate images from Google Street View. The archive is an opensource dataset which consists of tagged street locations collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division.
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Alternative Cloud Research / 500 frames from Vadim Gershman on Vimeo.
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For the opening of the show at the XYandZ Gallery I created a series of printed works on canvas which consist of clouds from the archive coupled with a curated set of inspirational aphorisms screen printed over the image.The text was also mined on Google.
Below: Alternative Cloud Research at the XYandZ Gallery in Minneapolis, April 2012.
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visit alternativecloudresearch.com
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Alternative Cloud Research / 500 frames from Vadim Gershman on Vimeo.
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For the opening of the show at the XYandZ Gallery I created a series of printed works on canvas which consist of clouds from the archive coupled with a curated set of inspirational aphorisms screen printed over the image.The text was also mined on Google.
Below: Alternative Cloud Research at the XYandZ Gallery in Minneapolis, April 2012.
