Webcam Works: Isabelle Jenniches
October 2 – November 6, 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 1, 4:30-6:00
Artist Talk following the Reception: 6:00pm
Jenniches’ fascination for webcams (public cameras on the internet)
began over a decade ago. Since then, this technology has evolved
from tiny grainy pictures to high resolution imagery, and from rarity
to ubiquity. Jenniches utilizes webcams in theatre and online performances,
in realtime collaborative creation and photographic series. This
practice culminates in the creation of monumental collages of webcam
pictures, the main focus of her first solo exhibition.
Seeking out the intersections between physical and virtual space, these
works appropriate online cameras to create vast, intricate composite panoramas.
Many miles away from the actual location yet connected via the Internet,
the artist directs these robotic webcams to scan the picture plane bit by
bit. Over the course of several months or even years, Jenniches captures
thousands of still images, and in a tedious manual process stitches them
together into a panorama of great complexity and detail. Although each individual
webcam image is a true photographic representation of one instant in time
and space, however mundane, the sum of their arrangement has a spectacular
effect. The result reveals the passage of time and develops its own narrative
logic, offering a fictive yet hyper-realistic portrait of a place.
To find out more about Isabelle Jenniches, visit her website: www.9nerds.com/isabelle
Funded, in part, by a grant from the Cultural
Council of Santa Cruz County and
the Netherlands Foundation for
Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
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