Google Street View Used as Art in Pittsburgh, PA
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On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team, the Mattress Factory and residents of Pittsburgh’s North Side to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web on November 4, 2008.
Google Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. Participants around the world can now navigate the artwork, titled Street With A View, on the project's official website (http://www.streetwithaview.com) or by typing "Mattress Factory + Pittsburgh" into Google Maps.
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The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents “art you can get in to” – room–sized environments, created by in–residence artists. Located at 500 Sampsonia Way, on Pittsburgh’s North Side, since 1977, the Mattress Factory is hailed as the best facility for installation art in the United States.
Google Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. Participants around the world can now navigate the artwork, titled Street With A View, on the project's official website (http://www.streetwithaview.com) or by typing "Mattress Factory + Pittsburgh" into Google Maps.
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The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents “art you can get in to” – room–sized environments, created by in–residence artists. Located at 500 Sampsonia Way, on Pittsburgh’s North Side, since 1977, the Mattress Factory is hailed as the best facility for installation art in the United States.
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The official website for the Street With A View project.
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