A Digital Curiosity Cabinet. by D. Eric Bookhardt
The Jennicam, alas, is dead. It went out with the old year. Founded in 1996 by a college student named Jennifer Ringley, it consisted of a camera hooked up to her computer and continued after she graduated and got her own place. Over the years anyone could watch her play with her pets, do her nails, change clothes or go to bed with her boyfriend. Along the way, she got famous as a precursor of reality TV, but when Paypal dropped her credit card subscriber service because of the occasional nude content, she decided to pull the plug and get a real job. Patrick Lichty and his show at Barrister's have nothing to do with the Jennicam except that he, too, is an exponent of what is broadly called "new media," and he, too, is fond of candid cameras. Although something of a techno-freak with many digital devices, his favorite may well be his Casio camera watch, a watch that takes pictures. The resolution is low, but Lichty pushes the limits, even using it to make primitive videos, one frame at a time. One such work is 8 Bits or Less. Of it, he says, "An artist who has become blind (physically or ideologically) resorts to viewing his world through the devices that constitute his senses, like cell phones and wristcams. The result is a distorted landscape that considers Situationist theory, surveillance culture, identity, and alien abduction." more... http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/work-at-lemieux-galleries-and-the-ogden-museum/Content?oid=2032717 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
