A Tumblr Chronicles Google Art Project Copyright Fails
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Righted Museum is an ongoing project of Mario Santamaria, a new media artist who has worked with the Google Art Project before in a series called “Running Through the Museum,”
which depicts what it is like to move through a virtual representation
of a museum at the highest possible speed. Another Google Art Project
piece by Santamaria in the form of a Tumblr blog, “The Camera in the Mirror,”
catalogues various times that the Google Street View camera has
captured its own reflection in a mirror—a kind of unintended
self-portrait—while photographing a museum.
In documenting these blurred paintings,
Righted Museum is creating a record of every time freedom of information
has failed. The ultimate irony, of course, will be when the blog gets a
cease and desist order from Google for reproducing their copyrighted images. Until then, we’ll be busy guessing what these blurred masterpieces might be.
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