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Stewart Skylar Copeland

Recent Work

Observation Arena2024
A Kindred Soul2023
A Snow Globe From Places We
Couldn’t Go2023
Janus2022
Christmas Eve, Bryant Park2021
The Illuminated Bay2021
Beyond All Means of Capture2019

Pedagogy

Courses
Vis-a-thon
ARTSLab

Archive

Gold Drone2018
Something Happened Here2018
Flash Cards2017
Brainfreeze2014-2018
They’re Not From Here2017
Mr. Smith’s Peach Seeds2012
Music Videos2011-2017
Let Your Feet Do The Talkin’2010
Button Bar2015-2020
Jennifer2009
About

Stewart Skylar Copeland
In November of 2012, Google released Android 4.2 and introduced Photospheres. These were user submitted, 360 degree, panoramic images that could be geo-tagged and made publicly accessible through Google Earth. I became interested in one particularly prolific uploader who over four years had submitted more than 1,500 photospheres from a dozen different countries. What interested me most was his dedication to the laborious task of deleting himself from his own photographs. What remains are small imperfections in the image - misaligned tiles on a garden path, the severed toe of a boot, a shadow disconnected from a body.

20 Digital Prints 22" x 17" on Moab Entrada Bright Rag 300gsm