October 8, 2008
Between Blinks and Buttons
Sascha Pohflepp, writing for we-make-money-not-art.com, describes his Buttons project showcased at the Eyebam event in New York.
"Buttons is a camera that, instead of taking a photo, takes a moment. It then connects to the web to find someone else's photo that happened to be taken in the very same instant and displays it.
The project aims to comment on photography as an increasingly networked practice and uses our trail of data to to create a connection between two strangers on the basis that they did the same thing simultaneously: press a button.
To create a networked button and retrieve other individuals photos, Buttons consequentially employs the technology which some cameras are presently merging with - the mobile phone.
[via we-make-money-not-art.com]
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