Video Tutorial and Written Feedback 8
In this video tutorial, we reviewed the
learning outcomes on flaneuring via Google Street View. Reflections on what it
means to do photographic flaneuring today, insights and critical analyzes of
some authors who used Street View as a tool for the creation of their visual
works and the result of an experiment using the same tool were published in the
learning log .
· A substantial difference emerges between the wandering of the
flaneur in a state of "pure consciousness" (even if disenchanted with
the reality that surrounds him) and the "pure unconsciousness", the
indifference of the device that records the pure image of reality.
· This change of scheme, where the one who is supposed to
wander, observe and photograph (the flaneur) delegates his role to a neutral
intermediary who prevents direct interaction with the environment (in terms of
time and physical view), can create a divergence between the classic and the
digital declilnations of the flaneur , to the point of making us wonder whether
these two figures can be juxtaposed.
· The reference to the pixelation technique introduced by
Thomas Ruff and described by David Campany is interesting, to compare it to
pixelation as a result of the image cropping of Street View. It is here that
technology emerges to assert itself as an intermediary between the flaneur's
eye and reality
· This outcome, as an experiment, will be part of the set of
this unit. I will then have to decide if it can contribute to the final body of
work in the next unit.