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So today in Net Art we were talking about this one piece that we'd read about earlier, but talking about it today got me thinking.
This artist, Wolfgang Staehle, had this piece that was sort of a new media landscape thing. On three walls of the installation he had video screens with live feeds. I forget where the other two were, but one wall was a diptych of Manhattan, with one shot focused on the skyline from across the East River. The video feeds updated every 4 seconds, so the idea was that most of the time it was pretty still and tranquil, just like a landscape painting, unless a boat went by or something.
This was back in September of 2001. It started on September 6th - 5 days before the 9/11 attacks. His piece recorded the whole thing.
Can you imagine having this installation with your video feed of the skyline, and then having this happen? I think I would be in complete shock - more so than I was anyway watching on TV - if I was at this installation watching a steady, unchanging landscape video and then...
And I can't imagine being the artist, if that was my piece. I was thinking about it, and I think the first quick thought that would flash through my head before I really processed anything would be "Dammit, this wasn't supposed to happen! This is ruining my show!"
And that just makes me pretty disgusted with myself.
This artist, Wolfgang Staehle, had this piece that was sort of a new media landscape thing. On three walls of the installation he had video screens with live feeds. I forget where the other two were, but one wall was a diptych of Manhattan, with one shot focused on the skyline from across the East River. The video feeds updated every 4 seconds, so the idea was that most of the time it was pretty still and tranquil, just like a landscape painting, unless a boat went by or something.
This was back in September of 2001. It started on September 6th - 5 days before the 9/11 attacks. His piece recorded the whole thing.
Can you imagine having this installation with your video feed of the skyline, and then having this happen? I think I would be in complete shock - more so than I was anyway watching on TV - if I was at this installation watching a steady, unchanging landscape video and then...
And I can't imagine being the artist, if that was my piece. I was thinking about it, and I think the first quick thought that would flash through my head before I really processed anything would be "Dammit, this wasn't supposed to happen! This is ruining my show!"
And that just makes me pretty disgusted with myself.