The Satellite Collection by Jenny Odell is a series of six digital collages. Odell found the images for the collages using Google Satellite and then sorted the images into categorized like pools, water towers etc. My two favourites are 195 Cargo Ships, Barges, Motorboats, Yachts, Tankers, Cruise Ships, Riverboats, Sailboats and Hospital Ship and 81 Square Miles of the Great Salt Lake. These collages are my favourites as they combine a grid pattern with a scale.
The final printed collages are not interactive at all but the processes of their creation shares a lot with interactive installation. Firstly there is an interactive element in the searching for the images used; Odell had to interact with Google Satellite to find the images. Secondly like a lot of interactive installation there is an element of data being sorted to produce an visual elements, in The Satellite Collection the images have been sorted into objects.
Even though these collages where interactive in their creation I don't feel that they can be classified as interactive art as there was no audience involved in their creation. The main interesting point about these collages is how readily available software like Google Satellite can be used in the creation of interactive installation.
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