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This
video chronicles my personal relationship with a web cam; the
live, 24-hour web cam of the Empire State Building in New York.*
In November 2000, I began taking pictures of the image I saw
on my computer screen. I did not use a camera, but instead took
thousands of images using the screen shot function built into
the operating system of personal computer. The still shots are
compiled into a video diary of the distant building in an internet
browser window, as it sits on my computer desktop. The ability
to experience, capture, “own”
and care about the remote building kept me engaged. As I sat in
a windowless computer lab for hours on end, I came to understand
that the ability to see the weather and natural light patterns reflected
in this icon of human engineering was what was so compelling to
me. Perhaps even more compelling is the ability to see it through
someone else’s camera - a person I have never met in
a space I have no physical knowledge of. At times, the existence
of life in the same room as the camera is revealed through
the close observation of the web cam, shadows, handwriting
on a window and jogs to the camera.
*Empire 24/7 at http//live.thing.net is no longer
online, was operated by Wolfgang Staehle
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Screening
History:
•
Central Cinema, Seattle, WA Novemmber 1, 2007
• TekniKunst
05, Melbourne, Australia, July 20th, 2005, Impackt video
screenings, curated by Jenna Corcoran and Katherine Dine
• Festival
Nemo, Paris, France. April 6th and 8th 2005, Independent
Exposure: Festival Nemo - Microcinema video screenings
• Neuer
Standort, Vienna, Austria. Nov 25, 2004, Autumnal
Edition 2004 - Microcinema video screenings
• SF
Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. Nov 9, 2004, Monument
Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces – Film/video
screenings
• 111
Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Sept
27, 2004, Autumnal Edition 2004 - Microcinema
video screeningsAxiom
Theater, Houston, TX. Sept 17, 2004, Autumnal Edition
2004 - Microcinema video screenings
• Art
Institute of California, Orange County, Santa Ana,
CA. June 2004, Eye Candy and Contemplation – video
screenings curated by Michael Mandiberg and Joel Tauber
• California
State University Chico, Chico, CA. May 2004, International
Video Shorts Festival - Curator, Nanette Wylde
• Cleveland
State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Nov
3 - Dec 13, 2003, Second Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition -
Curated by Timothy Wride. Awarded Best in Show
• Spark
Video: Beacon, Beacon, NY. Aug 2003, Fusion
Media Video Festival - Programmer, Josh Katcher
• Pace
Digital Gallery New York, NY. April 2003, Digital
Downtown – Curators, Jillian Mcdonald, Juliet
Ann Martin and Bruce Wands
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