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CULTURE CRITICISM<\/p>\n
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Selfie Schtick<\/p>\n
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Steve Chisnell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”ADD Date” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”PT Sans|on|||” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”0px|||” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size=”24″]<\/p>\n 20 January 2018<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Lead Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”24″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”40px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size_tablet=”22″]<\/p>\n I can\u2019t pretend I\u2019m hugely impressed by one of Google\u2019s newest apps, Arts and Culture–or at least I am cautionary about the feature which has received the most attention, the Search Art With Selfie. Sure, the entire idea is clever–but cleverness is itself not a virtue.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 2 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”30px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n Basically the function uses facial recognition software to match your photo against all the faces Google has collected of art across the world and ages. It seeks your artful doppleganger. And it works, to a degree. As I write people are posting their \u201cspitting images\u201d of famous (or forgotten) figures of history across social media. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” custom_padding=”50px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”17px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_width_px=”830px” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” gutter_width=”2″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/selfies.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_divider color=”#aeaeac” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”off” custom_css_main_element=”width:130px;” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Photo Caption” background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Serif||on||” text_font_size=”16″ text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”20px||0px|” max_width=”130px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″]<\/p>\n At least 400 million people look like Cleopatra.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Photo Credit” background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Serif||on||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”6px|||” max_width=”130px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″]<\/p>\n With “thanks” to Google Arts and Culture<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 3 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ custom_margin=”46px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n It\u2019s definitely fun, feeding our society\u2019s digital narcissism in yet another configuration: Allo, Meitu, Bitstrips, and a thousand others have already failed to escape our collective attention deficit. <\/span><\/p>\n But that\u2019s precisely the problem, isn\u2019t it? Google\u2019s app has enormous reach. It highlights our civilization\u2019s artistic accomplishments, and it catalogs and indexes our thinking by theme, era, geography, innovation, or any other variation we might imagine. It promises to bring to our fingertips some of the most profound expressions and scholarship from the last 8000 years. <\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re using it for selfies.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”50px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_divider color=”#aeaeac” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Pull Quote” background_layout=”light” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”32″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”16px||30px|” text_line_height=”1.3em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” max_width=”900px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″]<\/p>\n “Our cultural politics demands we choose sides, take a stand, vote one way or another, A or B, argue pro or con, answer yes or no.<\/span>”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#aeaeac” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”17px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 4 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ custom_margin=”30px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n With Google, I can find the history of the Dutch East India Company\u2019s governor portraits by Theodorus Rheen at the Rijksmuseum with the same agility as finding the nearest Tim Horton\u2019s or Age of Empires build times. The apps are a fingerprint apart. But we know that while Farmville and Flappy Birds, Yo and Meerkat, FourSquare and DrawSomething, each have fallen into amnesia to all but the most desperate, what element of Google Arts and Culture will prevent the same fate?<\/span><\/p>\n Google seems to know that we are not ready for a museum trip on our phones; therefore it packages the selfie schtick as an attention-getter, an in-app insult of our own lack of culture. But by doing so, it risks placing the app in the same category as Koi Pond and Periscope: our distracted behavior is well-honed. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” custom_padding=”50px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”17px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_width_px=”830px” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” gutter_width=”2″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/flappy-bird.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.97″ src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/1486860_10152471857218765_1047889366_n.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Photo Caption” background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Serif||on||” text_font_size=”16″ text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”20px||0px|” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″]<\/p>\n Parts of our past best forgotten.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”17px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 5 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ custom_margin=”30px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n It may well be said that my finding fault with the app due to our social shallowness is itself problematic. What is Google to do? If it did not have the selfie component, the entire enterprise might go the way of Google Bump, Schemer, Picasa, Moderator, or Plus. And if it does, it cheapens the very art it offers by pandering to our self-idolatry. <\/span><\/p>\n And this, then, is the problem with all things social. Our cultural politics demands we choose sides, take a stand, vote one way or another, A or B, argue pro or con, answer yes or no. Every topic before us is examined with this simple binary, this insistence of the simplicity of issues.<\/span><\/p>\n But each human innovation–like symbolism and art, texts and politics–offers a more complex ripple of effects, a series of readings for both creditors and critics alike, and the balance sheet between them is not so easily tallied. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” custom_width_px=”980px” use_custom_gutter=”on” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” gutter_width=”2″ custom_padding=”30px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”6px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/barbie-art-selfie.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/arts-and-culture.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/chiz-art-selfie.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”17px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 6 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”30px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.97″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n The art of our civilization will likely survive, despite the Google app\u2019s popularity. What we cannot predict is how free and instant access to the complete genome of human civilization–one without the signifiers of pilgrimage, sacred, cryptid, or rare–will shift our valuing of what it teaches. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” _builder_version=”3.0.64″ disabled=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|on”][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” custom_width_px=”780px” use_custom_gutter=”off” padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”36″ text_text_color=”#363636″ text_line_height=”1.4em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” text_font_size_tablet=”26″ text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_margin=”||70px|” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]<\/p>\n Want new articles before they get published? 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