Regula Bochsler & Philipp Sarasin - The Rendering Eye: Urban America Revisited

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Regula Bochsler & Philipp Sarasin - The Rendering Eye: Urban America RevisitedThe Rendering Eye shows 3 D screenshots of the urban United States as they appear in Apple Maps: deserted streets, buildings and industrial plants that look almost post apocalyptic. Cars and boats turn into ephemeral shadows, trees are cocooned into sculptures, containers melt, machinery is deformed and streets are warped. Although the algorithms trace the contours of the world with astonishingly mimetic precision, the spooky universe of Apple Maps is

surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them

the artist Benjamin Deboosere and the landscape architect Wouter De Raeve

starting in the landscape and visiting reference paintings by Thomas Arnolds

A special unit of the NVA (National People’s Army) in the former DDR was tasked with the production of fake weaponry and the development of camouflage techniques - an occupation they continued after the reunion of Germany

dismembered them with a hacksaw and photographed them

The project compiles numerous contributions by artists

It sets up an unusual dialogue with the artists Hugo Ball

A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale

His book discusses a social memory of the Holocaust

She photographs the photographed and the painted

with the sunshine in their faces

Mysticism and demystification are important aspects in this process

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