Googled Sculptures Series 2017

Sam Blanchard / USA

Virginia Tech

www.sambranchard.com/googledsculpture

The Googled Sculpture series explores this crowdsourced concept of object presence, examining the three most sought after sculptures in Western art history. Using only selected tourist photos from Google image search results for "Venus de Milo," "Michelangelo David," and "Thinker Rodin," the flawed and incomplete similarities are stitched together in photogrammetry software, rendered, and printed on 3D. The resulting jagged figure is a physical manifestation of the web presence. Areas of high and low resolution speak to the focal points and perspectives often captured by visitors to icons of Western sculpture.