{"id":339,"date":"2020-01-02T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmindthegap.it\/mindthegap2019\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2024-09-24T23:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:41:05","slug":"emilio-vavarella","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmindthegap.it\/mindthegap2019\/emilio-vavarella\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Emilio Vavarella"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” css=”.vc_custom_1577804089504{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1578742402957{padding-bottom: 24px !important;}”]Emilio Vavarella\u2019s work combines interdisciplinary art practice and theoretical research, and is centered around the study of the relationship between humans and technological power. His works present a combination of new technologies used with alternative (non-productive, poetic, dysfunctional) goals in mind, imagining technology\u2019s future effects through the use of speculative fiction, and decontextualizing and misusing technology to reveal its hidden mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Emilio is currently working on a PhD in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University. Venues that have exhibited Emilio\u2019s work include: MAXXI \u2013 Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo; KANAL \u2013 Centre Pompidou; MAMbo \u2013 Museo d\u2019Arte Moderna di Bologna; Villa Manin; Museo Nacional Bellas Artes in Santiago; National Art Center of Tokyo; Eyebeam Art and Technology Center; Fondazione Studio Marangoni and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]\u2192 emiliovavarella.com<\/a><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”photo-detail”][vc_single_image image=”226″ img_size=”full” css=”.vc_custom_1577961598624{padding-top: 6px !important;}” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1577975823921{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Exhibited works<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577962030377{padding-bottom: 24px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Report a Problem<\/em>, 2012<\/strong>
\nArchive of collected digital images, sublimation print on aluminum, variable dimensions[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577803842155{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The series of 100 images entitled Report a Problem<\/em> is the first part of a project about the relationship between humans, power, and technological errors. \u201cReport a Problem\u201d is the message that appears at the bottom of the Google Street View screen, which allows viewers to report a problem during the viewing of the place they are virtually visiting: missing censorship, wrong colors, random appearances. I traveled on Google Street View photographing all the \u201cwrong landscapes\u201d I encountered before others could report the problems and prompt the company to adjust the images. Common landscapes are transformed by Google\u2019s unexpected technical errors into something new.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”photo-detail” css=”.vc_custom_1577963887783{padding-top: 6px !important;}”][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”353,352,351,350,349″ img_size=”full” onclick=”” css=”” enable_drag=”yes” direction_nav=”yes” control_nav=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577962929907{padding-bottom: 24px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The Driver and the Cameras<\/em>, 2012
\n<\/strong>Collected digital images, sublimation print on aluminum, variable dimensions[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1577803848160{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Each Google Street View car is equipped with a Dodeca 2360 camera with eleven lenses, capable of photographing 360 degrees. Afterwards the photos are assembled, creating a stereoscopic view, and an algorithm developed by Google automatically blurs the faces of people to protect the privacy of those accidentally portrayed. To create this series of photographs, I went looking for faces that had escaped Google Street View\u2019s algorithm. The eleven portraits I isolated immortalize the driver of the Google car. The driver is a sort of phantom power; he appears where he shouldn\u2019t be and his presence has escaped censure. His face is the symbol of an error yet at the same time shows a human side and, perhaps, the limits of technological power.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”photo-detail” css=”.vc_custom_1577963893188{padding-top: 6px !important;}”][vc_gallery interval=”0″ images=”356,355,354″ img_size=”full” onclick=”” css=”” enable_drag=”yes” direction_nav=”yes” control_nav=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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