Seeing
the outdoors while indoors, seeing through machines, seeing
the machine seeing, seeing the limitations of the machine,
seeing that as beautiful.
I
collect artifacted images from publically-available, landscape
webcams. I have thousands of images that reveal more information
about the camera's imaging capabilities within a challenging
environment than about the outdoor visual scene they are meant
to display for internet viewers. As the camera struggles to
image a scene that includes the bright afternoon sun, or ice
on the lens or a scene that does not contain enough light,
interesting artifacts show up - pixel streaks, chunky graininess,
light flares and other mysterious light and glitch effects.
This installation includes a sampling of my collection, organized
into 3 categories of artifacts: Light, Lens,
and Dark.
Some
of my favorite landscape webcams to visit are:
- Syracuse
University quad cam (fantastically glitchy!)
- Scott
Base, Antarctica (sometimes they write "hello mom" in
the snow)
- Kamchatcha,
Russia
- La
Quinta, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (the sky is always
a beautiful color there)
- Alaska
Weather Cams (nice variety of alaskan skies)
- Fort William, Scotland
- Waco Texas (a wonderfully low-quality camera)
- Mt.
St Helens, WA (this camera often gives the impression that
the volcano is erupting, or is it just foggy there all the time?)
- Christchurch,
New Zealand
- Reno,
Nevada (sky is always pink, I'm never sure if this one
is broken, but I like it)
- Castle
Dale, Utah (excellent grainy effects at dusk)
- Brest,
France (best at night)
- North Carolina waterfall
- Orebro,
Sweden (at certain times of the day you will see the camera
reflected in the window)
- Heidelberg, Germany
- Isfjorden, Norway
- Cape Town Webcam South Africa
- Hangö Stevedoring
webcam (at night the lights do interesting things
to this camera)
- La
Playa Beach
- Pine Mountain, Oregon
Many
more webcams can be found here
on Opentopia. |