Google ambitious mapping projects such as Google Maps and Google Street View invite numerous interventions and reactions from artists. Yet are these databases merely documenting our world or are they also affecting and changing it? Could these projects be read in the light of "observer effect" in physics where the act of observation is actually changing or affecting the phenomenon being observed?

1. New Media Salon
Postcards from Nowhere –
Google and Interactive Photo Databases
Romi Mikulinsky (Ph.D)

2. Street View in South Africa & Botswana
Botswana Rhino Sanctuary.

3. Street View in South Africa & Botswana
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4. Street View in Japan

5. Donkey Gate
Google claims no donkey was harmed

6. Rugdeveien 39 bergen, Norway
The frogman from Norway

7. Street View in Stonehenge

8. Street View in Brazil

9. Street View in Canada

10. Julienle Vesque

11. Jon Rafman – 9-Eyes

12. Rafman – 9-eyes

13. Rafman – 9-Eyes

14. Michael Wolff
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15. Rafman vs. Wolff

16. Rafman vs. Wolff

17. Andreas Rutkauskas – Virtual Landscapes

18. Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion
Jaws – Panic Scene w/ Google Earth