A Year in the Life of the World
Currently under development.
A Year in the Life of the World is an immersive, multi-channel video installation. The work creates a new map of the earth through the arrangement of approximately 200 video landscapes within a domed room. Images from each webcam will be archived for one year, starting in the spring of 2006. The finished work will be a portrait of one year in the life of the world.
The Archiving Process: For this project, we needed to find a way to capture, catalogue and store video data from over 2000 web cams around the world. To that end, we have written a computer program called Plover that can be run in the background on any Macintosh computer. The program links that machine (the client) to a server. The server sends instructions to the client on which cams to capture and receives and holds the data the client collects, as well as reporting any problems encountered to the system administrator. The user interface allows clients to access information about the type and amount of data they’ve provided, as well as information on the status of the projects as a whole. The video data, as well as GPS, time and date information from the cams, will periodically be downloaded by the system administrator and stored on disc.
Download the Plover client to help collect images