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"Global...Never the same again always different....forever." by Stanza
Stanza's, 'Global: Never the same again always different....Forever', is a real time web artifact made in 2004. A 3d web sculpture being transformed in real time with live data from around the world. This is being updated from webcams around the globe in real time. 'Never the same again always different....Forever', uses CCTV and web cams which offer readily available sources of continuous visual data from our environment and world cities. This work turns the notion of surveillance upside down, since in this work we are all watching everybody and opens up a question about the legality of the imagery. It also turns us all in voyeurs and creates an insight into the imagery and happenings that exist in various 'parallel realities'. The data is opened out to a global online network of observers. It becomes an online global repositioned world view unfolding in real time. If many computers all link to this work then this looks interesting as all the images on the screens will be different. Global is one of many works have made recently about real time data in networks and cities and about the ownership of these image rights. There are several works in this series including, The Global worls view, Madrid, London , and New York. CCTV systems are everywhere in the public domain. We are all actors, bit part actors, in a giant movie called life. Except we cannot watch, it is not on public display and the results are monitored, filtered and distributed without our permission. The city also has millions of CCTV. In essence the city is the biggest TV station in existence. Millions of hours worth of data are recorded every day by these cameras on city TV. One can take the sounds and images off live web streams and re-represent them thus creating new interpretations of the city in the process. Using data from cctv, you can bring the outside inside. Selected feeds are collected from around the world in real time. These real time images are fed into a software system where a series of specialised channels rework these images. The channels are always on, and always changing, a constant view of the world changing and evolving around the clock. This uses specially created software and technology to randomly engage the cameras. TECHNICAL.You need shockwave installed. There is an internet security issue so tick all the boxes the first time you visit; you need to allow the access to the work. Please note, sometime the piece is slow to start, therefore allow a few seconds. Also, the first few images are 'dummy' images, these are always the same, therefore please allow the system a few seconds to 'warm up'. NB: Remember this is happening in real time so if you are not connected to the internet it will not work. EXHIBITION: This artwork is available for exhibition at galleries and media events. I would ideally like it exhbited on three screens as a an installation either on projectors or on a plasma screen. Selected exhibitions of this work include: Viper 2004 in Basel Switzerland, the Samsung Media Centre in Korea as part of Senef 2004. I have also shown this work in Japan, The Watershed Media Centre Bristol and as show in NYC in 2004 at Postmasters and at The Dana Centre, London.
enter "GLOBAL: Random World: Never the same again always different....forever"
This work above is called; "City Of Lost Souls". NOTE this is live froms the streets of America.
(c) Stanza 2004: www.stanza.co.uk |
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