Public Domain

Public Domain

Public Domain uses live CCTV images from cameras in Nottingham to make an artwork about the city of Nottingham. The cameras are distributed to the public by Stanza. The public in effect collaborate to make an online artwork re-contextualizing CCTV images in real time. The result is a visual representation from Nottingham; a slice of life.

Public Domain uses images that can be seen by all, modified with varying visualizations, which are then communicated over the internet and represented onto display systems.

This artwork involves creating a network of cameras in the city. This is an installation across the city, integrating the public and city space. By placing adverts for local public to be involved, I will invite the public to participate in the selection of what we point cameras at.

The city also has millions of CCTV. In essence the city is the biggest TV station in existence. Millions of hours worth of data are recorded every day by these cameras on city TV.

The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.

Objectives

To buy, set up, and distribute, some CCTV cameras.

To engage the public within a new media/ digital artwork.

To incorporate the public into the work itself as 'actors' with the gathering of assets.

To create a website that allows these gathered assets to be viewed online as an artwork.

Audience

The target audience for this online artwork is global. Within the online environment the capacity to engage with net art is vast. This work will be placed in this net space.