wash me over
(gently, softly)



room69
google street view intervention + AR Filters
Transmedia Research Institute
Umanesimo Artficiale
online – Google Street View (Fano, Italy)














Absorbed in craving for distance, promising states, the topos of consolation in sorrowful times. In bliss paralysing weariness, domestic idyll, grinding sounds like an angry murmur. Security, finals, mobile immobility objectified. I will never forget how the tamed war cutter lazily rocked between the containers. The roar warningly between the chattering crowds of people excitedly circling the cruise liner. 

The Porto di Fano, with its nuances and connotations of "land", "infrastructure", and "water", serves as a real template for the collective room69's digital intervention, which is accessible via Google Street View. 

The harbour’s locality was captured via drone footage. These recordings were constructed as a 360-degree world and thus became the virtual landscape for the digital artworks of the collective. To make this digital world accessible, the material was fed into Google Maps to make the artistic intervention part of the Streetview function. 

The digital landscape, even if uncontrolled and unmanaged, attracts the atmosphere of the physical spaces in which it is embedded - it plays with imagination, deconstruction and maritime metaphors. A virtual topology that mimics its physical counterpart can, like an organism, reconstruct its history, objects, space, and environment. The artworks within the digital topology of Porto di Fano capture time and space, weather, and scent while offering a distorted and fantastic glimpse into the past. 

Cristian Anutoiu offers queer nonbinary avatars comfort between the fibres of virtuality, both expanding and distorting the environment they inhabit, as flourishing within it. Brooklyn J. Pakathi is seeding ideas, to leave traces of newness across a vast landscape of decay and change, while Hannah Neckel’s sculptures are leaking through the fabrics of reality, arising of and from the virtual ocean from dreams into the internet, glimmering in the dark, illuminating the path, guiding you towards a possible Utopia. Josepha Edbauer´s horses rebel against their given narratives, are reared up, while illuminating historical aspects of the port and leading to Luke Dworschak whoms cloudlike iterations of scanned bodies are dissolving in light and leaving behind all matter. Maximilian Prag’s works are based on the term recursion, borrowed from computer programming. As an object, like a Moebius loop, several distortions are placed in the exhibition setting, awaiting their answer, while trying to process, cursed by their existence.