SAVING YOURSELF TO THE INTERNET
Saving Yourself to The Internet is an interactive sculture that photographs users and saves their image to flickr.
OK, going off of the individual meeting,I am changing the sculptural aspect of the project. The software will be the same, but instead of a scanner type sculpture, it will be a hollowed out photo album that takes the picture when the book is opened. It will sit on a slanted reading podium type thing that will be able to house the mac mini or whatever computer. I may or may not put a reading chair in as well, with a lamp.

I am thinking the proximity detecter will sense when users are in front of and change the monitor to instructions until they push a button, or just start the process and change the monitor to say something like "please wait"
When it activates, it will move up or down until the camera is positioned to get the same framing of each viewers' face, then give a countdown on the screen and save the image to a folder. A python script will then upload that image to flickr.
I think the simplest way to control the scanning effect is to use a pulley system with a stepper motor winding the rope along a spool to raise it and letting it go slowly to lower it.
Artists using the Internet as a medium
Jon Rafman's google street view images:
http://youtheworldandi.com/



Justin Kemp's Adding to The Internet:


Brad Troemel - An Immaterial Survey Of Our Peers

Comments (1)
north said
at 12:16 am on Oct 21, 2010
Regarding remote shutter for NikonD50
Not the one I mentioned, which I am still looking for, but this is worth pointing to. Let me know if you can make it work...
http://www.radiantvista.com/community/showthread.php?t=773
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