img src from -- https://driesdepoorter.be/24h-sunrise-sunset
in a previous life (well it seems that way) i used to be involved as the tech crew for 'on the ground' arts installations and events. Our biggest event was in iceland where we streamed a massive conference and had many guests watching remotely, i think we hit like two million views at the end of like four hours of watchings or something crazy.
Part of misses those days of constantly being on the road, charging batteries, checking the wifi, speaking with the onsite IT team, getting everyone aware of the schedule, stepping through as an anchor of who we can expect to be speaking too next when they came off stage -- it was hectic it but it was quite the buzz, pay was always pretty decent too.
Even now in pandemic times it's still possible to come across 'digital art installation' projects that are happening across the EU. I've always been interested in this seemingly never ending pot of funds that magically appears each near in the EU for digital art installations and projects, we used to tap into that or at least get matched funding until the whole uk brexit stuff happened.
Still, it's great to see projects still doing stuff, also shows you that we are a million years behind actually telling people outside our crypto zone about the technology, communities and what things do, we don't reach the everyday person, they don't see below the veil of the day to day life they are often stuck within.
Simple digital art projects like this are great because you can tell it's a passion project for someone, they wanted to display a public webcam from somewhere in the world where it was sunrise, grabbing data about those times and storing it somewhere in the cloud, grabbing a camera to present, show that data on the custom pcb/box they built -- really really relatively simple stuff.
But for non-techy people kinda super arty and interesting right -- they can understand this pcb front for instance -- location, very 'back to the future style' display with sunet on hdmi 1 and sunrise on hdmi 2 -- combined with a set of projectors they can display this on a wall and people can sit in the gallery and be augmented into the reality of the wider world -- literally being in two places at once.
watching sunrise on one side of the world while sunsets on the other -- sure you can do it this right now yourself by firing up a browser, finding public cameras and having them in some tabs, even come up with a way to embed them into a single page -- so why did this get funding? money to be an art installation?
Well, like most things in life, it's about presentation and simplifing the access to these things, make it so a five year can understand, then let them question, how does it do this, where is this, how do we know that to be true that it's sunrise and sunset -- the world can feel so BIG at times that we assume everywhere else is just stuck in time.
Photo by fotoswiss.com
Sunrises and Sunsets are so powerful for us humans, the start of a fresh day, morning energy, the fact that the sun is still there, giving us life and then the eventual sunset on the day you had, what you did within that day -- when you put it together in a presentation like this you create a familiar safe space for the viewer and if you add a splash of red wine i expect very interesting conversation to happen too!
If you could build a digital art project around crypto to show what that PULSE of the chain is what would that look like? i'm sure you could get funding if you came up with something unique.
Peace!
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