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  • Webcam 2002
    Realization: from May 27 at May 28, 2002
    sending of 1200 mails
    real public 100 visitors
    100 visitors virtual (USA-England-Portugal-France-Belgium-Japan-Korea...)
  • why ?
    To try out a technique specific to the Web
    The webcam automatic Capture of an image all the 15 second Posting and cooling of this image on the site every 30 seconds

  • Software and hardware
    2 PC connected in network by a cross cable RJ45
    port USB
    a connection Wanadoo Internet
    a Web site Windows 98
    - Agmail - Quick Camwood - Internet To explore-a webcam logitech-WS-ftp ...

  • Scene
    My workshop 99 street of Belleville Paris 75019
    a PC and a actress (HUN JUNK)

  • Subject
    = HUN JUNK SPEAKS A ITS COMPUTER =

  • RESULTS
    Vision of a part seen by a computer the image is captured, by chance according to a time cut and chopped by the computer contrary to photography, it is not the human eye which chosen, but the processor of a machine which projects the image through the network internationnal.

  • The quality (or no quality) of the image the blur had with the pixelisation of the image goes contrary to television and from the conventional images "well done" of which the goal is our reality.
    On the contrary the image of the webcam returns a quality of pixtures which adds with dimensions "hand made" and makes of it a series of Uniques images which questions its medium by manufacturing its own scene.

  • TO FOLLOW


    Christophe Desgouttes October 2002
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  • As in painting ,video, each artist questions the medium which it uses;
    Webcam takes part in this interrogation which is this new technique related to the computer.
    Interrogation of its specificity through the network, possibility of being seen throughout the world...
    and his Peeping Tom report/ratio and exibitionnist (reference with lives show of the erotic sites or the reality show of televisions).
    Interrogation over the time of the computer and the network: capture of a real space which deviend chopped and shifted by its numerical restitution on the Web... (capture 15 second-sending ftp - cooling 30 seconds...)

  • interrogation especially of its trace:
    the webcam is located between 2 techniques
    1 - the photograph (captures of an image)
    2 - the cinema (répetition of this capture) the cinema capture approximately 24 images second: (near to our perception of reality)
    does the photograph solidify this reality in an image
    the webcam would not be it not a technique batard between the two?
    however the computer is not this step which with digitized the image?
    The artist starts the technical process and the computer takes the photograph thus...
    the trace, the image of a webcam represents the image of today... the digital image creates either by the human eye but by the processor of a computer.
  • This trace for me is only one departure because these traces qualitée one clean: their pixels...
    thus several directions in the process is offered to me:

  • the first is the presentation in its virtual medium:
    see
    http://perso.wanadoo.fr/christophe.desgouttes/webcam/thumbail2002/index.htm

  • and the second is the enlarging of the image (in 1m70 X 1m70) to affirm its quality and to leave virtual Buckling the process Reality, virtual, Reality.

  • The technique webcam thus offers multiple pallets of tools and interrogations for the artist.
    It is a bond which links our world with that of the computer

    christophe desgouttes November 2002
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