Two different mountains at almost the same time. I see a trend forming. I sure would have like to see the source code for FUJI though.
Ps. A group of Icelandic geologists are predicting that Mt. Hekla may erupt soon. http://pallit.lhi.is/hekla/applet Happy new year everyone. (Did I say that already?) best r. Pall info wrote: > Turbulence Commission: "FUJI spaces and other places" > > January 3, 2010; 6:30 am in Tokyo (4:30 pm EST) > Turbulence Commission: "FUJI spaces and other places" by Nurit Bar-Shai > http://turbulence.org/works/FUJI > > Appropriating, processing, and interweaving several existing webcam > feeds of Mount Fuji, "FUJI" is a durational piece for four seasons. > "FUJI" examines the authenticity of networked, spatiotemporal > experiences of distant nature, sacred sites, and sacred icons. The > overwhelming immediacy and delirious variety of live broadcasts > available via the Internet, as well as the current incitement to > communicate with distant but real subjects alter our experience of space > which is invariably mediated through images. In "FUJI", the gap between > the real place and its representation no longer exists. "FUJI" is a > voyage across deep time, experienced minute by minute, day by day -- a > longing for a place that could never be, yet, evidently, always is. > > BIOGRAPHY > > Nurit Bar-Shai is an inter-media artist who composes video and live > telematic installations. Her work has been exhibited at the OK-Center in > Linz, The National Art Center in Tokyo, SESI Gallery in Sao Paulo, the > Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, The State Museum of > Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki and The Center for Digital Art in Israel, > among others. Bar-Shai received a Prix Ars Electronica 2007 Honorary > Mention, the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Award, ETC Finishing > Funds award, funded by NYSCA, ARTIS - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund > Grant, and was commissioned by Turbulence.org, with funds from The > Greenwall Foundation (2006), and with funds from The Jerome Foundation > (2009). Bar-Shai has held residencies at the Experimental Television > Center, the Makor Steinhardt Center, Harvestworks and the European Lab > for Interactive Media Art: eMobiLArt. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
