Alejo Malia's series called "Google's World" represents some of the elements that we see in Google Maps in the realistic setting. I think that this series signifies today's way of using a map and, in a sense, that it is not only a virtual reality, but happening in reality because, with GPS, Google Maps guides us as we move. Only thing is that we just don't see those icons in reality. But, this series intrigues me to put virtual icons into reality.
Space Junk Spotting by SAŠO SEDLAČEK
Using Google Earth, the Slovenian artist created a catalogue of junk exist in outer space.The dilemma of this garbage dump is that the owners of space junk shirk their responsibility, but then they claim their ownership, thus it makes it impossible to clean up or recycle the garbage in space. The theme of his project is to question the limit of dumping garbage into space and the owner's responsibility of space junk, and suggest the possibility of recycling. Based on a database of a U.S. government-owned space observatory, he mapped the position of space garbage and the information of each piece of junk on Google Earth.
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