Jerel Johnson

The revolution teleporter project developed in collaboration with Ojus Doshi, MFA 2015, Jonathan Hanahan, MFA 2014, and Prin Limphongpand, MFA 2015, remaps images of the Kiev protests sourced from Instagram into other locations. This project draws its power from the ability to calculate geo-coordinates in order transpose images from a revolution into a new location. This algorithmic operation helps us further understand and relate to images from afar. By force of algorithm, we can visit these images upon other cities (New York, Washington D.C., and Bangkok). Each iconic monument serves as a pin on the map with images from the Kiev protests loaded around it. The revolution takes place in familiar spaces where scale and point of view are explored — and new relationships to current events are generated algorithmically.

This project was done over a weekend workshop. It needs performance optimization.

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