Seeing the outdoors while indoors, seeing through machines, seeing the machine seeing, seeing the limitations of the machine, seeing that as beautiful.
For 6 years, I collected images from webcams pointed at landscapes around the world. Initially, my interest was in the extended vision these cameras provided, but my focus shifted to the mistakes, artifacts, and faults with the camera systems, rather than the outdoor scene meant to be displayed to internet viewers. Interesting artifacts are revealed as the camera struggles to image a scene that includes the bright afternoon sun, or reflections on the window it points out of, or electrical interference. The resulting landscapes include sublime pixel streaks, soft-focus abstractions, mirror images of the camera, light flares, and other mysterious effects. I categorized thousands of my screencaptured images into 8 types of artifacts. This installation includes “Glitches”, “Blurs” and “Internal Reflections”, each printed on a separate panel.