Document:Q11846

For 12 months from May 2004, a webcamera has been placed on a roof of a 17th century coaching inn in the heart of rural Cambridgeshire, part of an area known as Silicon Fen.
The webcam has been programmed to record images pixel by pixel. Currently it is set to record a pixel a second, so that a whole image is made up of individual pixels collected over 21.33 hours. Each image is collected from top to bottom and left to right in horizontal bands continuously.
The work is meant to be slow, a reflection on the ever increasing speeds we demand from the internet. It encodes the landscape over time, recording fluctuations in light and movement throughout the day (and night).
Regularly updated stills can be viewed in the site's archive, whilst a downloadable (flash) application lets the work function as a distributable artwork which can be viewed full screen and updated live to your computer in real time.