Bartholl installs a large physical representation of the Google Maps pin in the exact location that Google Maps identifies as the enter of a city.
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The 9-square-meter piece, " a giant and shimmering reinterpretation of the Google Maps pin, " was made from 10, 078 circular discs mounted to plywood.
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In San Francisco, demonstrators in San Francisco have carried signs shaped like the Google Maps pin and bearing the word " evicted " to protest the recent surge in tech-driven evictions in San Francisco.
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And where it is on the map pins down what political entity it is part of ( although the issue is of course a little complicated here )-- talk ) 16 : 31, 13 March 2009 ( UTC)
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I do not know how to add the map pin-point thing in that info box to the right like on this page : Tennent, New Jersey . thanks . talk ) 00 : 28, 2 July 2011 ( UTC)
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I do not know how to add the map pin-point thing in that info box to the right like on this page : Tennent, New Jersey . thanks . talk ) 22 : 16, 1 July 2011 ( UTC)
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Elsewhere, on a curved wall near the institute's interior stairwell, James Cullinane has used 30, 000 map pins and plain steel tacks to create " Reef, " a distorted-image drawing showing two children fighting over a ball.
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Bartholl's physical representations of the Google Maps pin urges viewers to reevaluate the information given by digitized maps, the meaning of the center of a city, the politicization of boundaries, and other issues related to maps and the digital versus the physical world.
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Amanda Kooser of cnet wrote, " if Liberace had been on the Google Maps design team, all the pins would look like this, " while Jamie Condliffe stated in Gizmodo, " The Google Maps pin is iconic : bold and simple, yet incredibly memorable.
