This series of videos is entirely devoted to the theme of completely incorporating and harmonising specific technological, natural and cultural resources currently surfacing in a challenging and complex way. This whole work is based on satellite images of our planet.

We are overrun by this type of "gaze" (Google Maps, Heart, Table Touch, Terra Server, AllMetSat, Goes,  Gov, Meteosat etc.) which reaches the outer limits of the stratosphere and then turns to look back on ourselves and our 'geographies' (like looking down through the eyes of the Divine, God's)... and furthermore without recognising anything; the micro and macro having become the same. This technological extension is completely optimised to map out the globe (a form of outlining territories), to be able to 'find' each thing, each address, one's own home (as if we were 'losing' it). It doesn't take long to realise that once the curiosity has worn off (after inviting us to recognise the places we have visited, like our friends' houses) we can then just marvel at that 'other' beauty, those unrecognisable colours and strange shapes on our earth (everything seems to contain all of this century's history of painting). These images of our planet, multiplying during the "eco-debate" era, seem to darkly foresee (what is in fact a certainty) its disappearance, the irreversible pollution (which brings to mind the coincidence between the arrival of hi-fi for sound diffusion and music recording and the overall drop of all civilisation's technological and contemporary industrial environmental acoustics). In brief, a "discussion" about the planet, cosmos, God and the transfiguration of the "technological whole". To reach right up to the satellite and look down from a place we might never have arrived at (looking at ourselves from these starry reaches) and manipulating all this, with different devices to transform the earth into art, the natural into cultural... and using this system of communication to share it with others... all this without moving an inch from one's chair.

 

download: eliomartusciello-to extend the visibility IV.mp4

 

download: eliomartusciello-to extend the visibility XIII (africa).mp4

 

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