Basile navigates the landscape
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An imaginary drone called Basile (an anagram of beacon in French) drifts over the Earth according to the vagaries of the wind. The program designed for this purpose exploits weather information distributed freely on the Internet to update Basile's position in the satellite landscapes of Google Map, or the photospheres of Google Street View. During this ambiguous journey, situated somewhere between the terrestrial and digital environments, Basile constantly reconfigures, in real time, an audiovisual program dictated by the contingencies of the climate and made up of geolocated videos gleaned from YouTube.
Moving at wind speed, Projet Basile offers a renewed experience in time and space of the planetary vision machine built from the ocean floor to the Earth's orbit by all our technocultural societies. To this end, the project inscribes a narrative into the earth's landscape, a narrative that is written in the wake of climatic contingencies. This narrative, with its fluctuating geolocation, is made up of various anachronistic photographic and audiovisual artefacts disseminated by users of Google Street View or YouTube. In this way, as the wind blows, it allows us to excavate from a planetary database a collection of media lost in an ocean of data, which conventional browsing by query or keyword makes difficult to access. In effect, left to the contingencies of the winds, online navigation on the surface of the Earth is no longer based on cultural affinity or thematic choice. It is organized in time and space according to a slow, random process of displacement, which resists the speed and cultural biases of our ways of being online.
Design and development : G.Pascale
Thanks : A.Girard
Contact : www.errorishuman.com
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Basile navigates the landscape
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