Images of Estonia uploaded onto Google Maps
Between the 15th of July and the 31st of August we spent a six week MOKS residency in the small Estonian village of Mooste, creating a body of work to address themes that emerged during the first week of our stay.
In both Google Maps and Google Earth you can choose to browse images that users have uploaded to the site. This was one of our first visual impressions of Estonia before coming to MOKS.
We would like to use this platform to continue exploring our main area of enquiry. It is interesting to see what Google users select as representations of a geographical area. As you would expect these are predominantly architectural, landscape or cultural images (cultural being of a more historical sort). Postcards. Prestigious sites. How well do they represent the area? How much do local people identify with these images? What images would local people choose to represent their area? (Maybe even the same ones?)
There are still very few images of the area where we have been living! The only images of Mooste that had been uploaded were of the distillery and the manor.
We would like to populate and subvert Google Earth and Google Maps with alternative images, every-day people, interiors, unwanted histories and chosen identities.
Further MOKS Residency interventions:
1. MILK MESSENGERS
2. SAND MAPPING
3. THE BARONS CLOTHES
4. WINDOW PICTURES
5. THE MOPED PROCESSION
6. EXHIBITION
7. GOOGLE MAPS
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