Chadwick Gibson - Virtual Bootlegs

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virtual bootlegs

gg: mbtc (gsv)

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Virtual Bootlegs: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Claude Monet, Photoshopped Google Museum View Screenshot (taken while in 3D mode) 2011- ongoing

These 3D images of canonical artworks are meant to be projected in a physical gallery and viewed with 3D glasses. Due to their 3D effect, and virtual origins, the images enter the physical gallery as faux-holographic Virtual Bootlegs— successfully dissolving the line between the physical and virtual gallery space and granting the works new digital lives.

The Floor Scrapers by Gustave Caillebotte 1875

Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

The source of these 3D Anaglyph artworks is Google Art Project. The project which is an extension of Google Street View, allows users to "explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of a museum and even build their own collections to share"

While taking virtual tours of these Museums, I utilize 3D Mode-- a functionality originally intended for GSV use-- and take screenshots of canonical artworks. Afterwards, I remove the artworks from their Museum environments using photoshop, and then enlarge them to the actual dimensions of the original pieces. Lastly, I project them onto gallery walls, giving them second lives as Virtual Bootlegs.