Homes, offices, the nightly news, television sitcoms – we’ve gotten used to seeing Google in all these places, and expect it to expand into even more. A new development caught us a bit off guard, however, as certain Google products are being shown in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Google Moon
Google Moon and Google Mars are on display as part of an exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind.” Google’s Michael Weiss-Malik explains, “The exhibit showcases objects and systems that pair modern design with innovations in science and engineering in creative ways. Google Moon’s Apollo landing panoramas and Google Mars’ imagery of the largest canyons and volcanoes in the solar system were intended to do exactly that, by applying Google Maps technology to places that are out of this world.”
This still sounds a little odd, but then, a lot of things in the Museum of Modern Art probably look completely crazy. In fact, Google Moon and Google Mars may be two of the most approachable things there; their presence might be the equivalent of a fancy restaurant’s gourmet hamburger.
Or not – art is more than a little outside our normal subject matter. So we’ll just return to Weiss-Malik, who writes, “We’re delighted that MOMA saw fit to include us in their lineup, and recommend the show to anyone living in or visiting the New York area. It runs through May 12th.”
Congrats to everybody who worked on either piece of software.
