Using the situation of the street as a starting point, Camera trap uses standard cctv cameras to capture the images of passersby in a passive somewhat accidental (without motion sensor) mode, otherwise similar to hidden camera wildlife ‘photography’ technique. A storefront…
The images in Next door neighbor started their digital life as files saved on the DVR of a real neighbor, an IRL found footage source. The covert gathering of visual information by CCTV seems a familiar environment to working with…
why did you started working with closed circuit cameras? I started working with ‘Net broadcasting’ as an art strategy around 1993, the equipment wasn’t ‘closed circuit cameras’, this was the early days of webcams, so the equipment plugged into the…
The grainy black and white images were salvaged from a bulk data backup of the hard drive saved at the time by Leo Fernekes. Thousands of images auto captured by the ‘DVR’? of the monitoring system of the entire network…