@LISA MORO//Atshushi Kasao: Webcam Art (2002)
Atshushi Kasao: Webcam Art (2002)
Process Information:
There are many Web cameras in the world, but who do these images belong to? In the real world, we can take a photograph or draw a sketch of scenery and use these created images and works for any purpose. Can I use the images I found through Web cameras as creative material? Who has copyright on these images?
The Internet has made all of us information senders. In the next step of Internet development, the Internet should give us the ability to create. Images and documents should be open content, and many types of creative tools will increase. Also, image creation and information about how to use such tools must be shared.
Through Webcam Art, I ask Web camera owners about copyrights of their images, and I show the works created from Web-camera images with SIC, a creative tool that is appropriate for an open-content culture, because images created in SIC include a history of the image process. Everyone has access to the history, and they can modify the processing information and apply it to their own images. We can share the hints and know-how about creation of new image expression through this history information.
Other examples of Webcam Art are shown at right. The above image was created from a Web camera of the Hudson River, and the image below is a portrait of a Japanese girl.
Affiliation Where Artwork Was Created:
- Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics
