Video, 2009
A ship travels. I follow its path across the open ocean through a little window in my computer screen. It updates every minute. I collect minutes. But I am not there. I am only here. One day of this journey, one day the sea moving fast below.
But a journey that goes to where it never arrives, and comes from where it never parted. It is the real sea. It was real time. Distance is distorted, compressed and negated. The little window makes me a promise of immediacy, of omnipresence…of control. But the promise is always inconsistent. Always unfulfilling.
I am interested in the distortion and fragmentation intrinsic to technologies that aim to provide a global vision of the world. This work is questioning the inconsistency of the promise of immediacy and omnipresence that Internet proposes.
Work for OXHOUSE project by Clare Adams (more info below). The video has been constructed from webcam images, taking one day of the journey of a ship. The sound is been created also from clips found on the internet.
D is for Distance, View work (vimeo)
Design for letter D
About OXHOUSE…
OXHOUSE is an online alphabet made for and about the digital native; by Clare Adams. A digital native is a person for whom digital technologies already exist when they are born, and hence has or will grow up with digital technology such as the internet, mobile phones, social networking sites etc.
Showcasing works from 26 diverse artists from all over the world in a variety of mediums from performance to illustration, who have responded to the following:
What are and will be the implications of the digital world on our digital natives?
What gift would you give to the digital native about to be born into our digital world?
Each artist proposed a piece of work for a letter of the alphabet then came up with a word to represent the letter and made a piece of work in response with a message or definition for the digital native. OXHOUSE marks a time in history where subsequent generations born will not remember life before the digital world. The alphabet is a guide to our own feelings about this from ACTION to ZERO and the things in between… distance, luggage, memory, thread, yet …
Curated by Justin Allen, supported by The Arts Council of England
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Obra para el proyecto OXHOUSE realizado por la artista Clare Adams. El video está realizado con imágenes de cámaras web siguiendo un día en el viaje de un barco. El sonido también está compuesto de clips encontrados en internet.