The first photographers of the 19th strolled the world with a large camera in order to document the planet, its landscapes, the men and their customs. With the Data landscape project, Lionel Bayol-Thémines trades the camera for a computer coupled to satellites and a shooting program and explores behind the screen, a new space, the «Big Data». The very principles of photography (point of view, framing, decisive moment …), are always summoned. It tracks the errors of landscape representation, the bugs, and uses Google as a new medium of image creation, it forces the program to produce the accidental, the improbable, the unexpected and the unpredictable by experiencing with the non respect of its protocol of use. The main concern of this work is to explore this new geographical space, these landscapes, to document something virtual, to question the diffusion of images and the programs that generate them. It is an experiment on the nature of the photographic medium and an investigation on the mechanisms of distribution of images on internet …
Lionel Bayol-Thémines – “Google as a medium“
du 16-01 au 7-02 -2019
Ecole supérieure d’art et design Le Havre Rouen / ESADHaR
65 rue Demidoff
76600 Le Havre
