By Wolfgang Staehle
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Wolfgang+Staehle
Why I liked it...
•>He captured images of the building every few seconds and transmitted them through the Internet to the
ZKM, where they were projected on a gallery wall.
ZKM, where they were projected on a gallery wall.
•>Staehle titled the installation Empire 24/7 in reference to Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), an eight-hour-long
film in which the camera focuses on the Empire State Building from dusk until dawn.
film in which the camera focuses on the Empire State Building from dusk until dawn.
•>Staehle framed the Empire State Building in a prolonged still shot that draws attention, through the absence
of action and camera movement, to the structure of the tower itself, to the effects of light on the building and
in the sky, and to the act of viewing itself.
of action and camera movement, to the structure of the tower itself, to the effects of light on the building and
in the sky, and to the act of viewing itself.
•>Staehle's Web cam work reflects the temporal compression of Internet communication.
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