- 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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