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"Life Feed: Webcams, art, and people" Summary
The webcam's mirror/telephone hybrid— as used by JenniCam
and its lifecasting progeny, from Ustream.tv to Chatroulette— is a messy sort
of videophone that captures a reflection at its physical location and disperses
it to whatever channel that switches the packets.
Rosalind Krauss- called video "the aesthetics of
narcissism"; deepens the psychoanalytic thrust of her argument by citing
Lacan's reading of psychotherapy from The
Language of the Self: the patient speaks a monologue to his silent therapist,
and in the void of the therapist's silence he sees his selfhood as a projected
object.
Ryder Ripps- The therapist isn't the silent listener
described by Lacan, but part of a feedback loop; internet audience, not the
therapist, becomes the silent listener
Guthrie Lonergan and Petra Cortright- construction of
identity online; homogenizing effect; indifference of the camera's lens
Jeremy Bailey- thinks of programming as a kind of
drawing…the most expressive and open of mediums, a record of the immediate
contact between the artist's body and the surface he's working with.
Antoine Catala- Lifecasting…can serve as a kind of moving
wallpaper
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