[Reader-list] Skycatcher: An art project of Luna Maurer

[Eric Kluitenberg]

dear members of the Reader-list,

I wasn't entirely sure if a simple announcement would be appropriate  
for this list. However, next Sunday (16.00 CET) we will launch a new  
fascinating internet-project by artist Luna Maurer in Amsterdam,  
called Skycatcher, which consists of a camera that takes a snapshot  
of the sky every 5 minutes and stores them in an on-line accessible  
database.

The opportunity to look at the sky in Amsterdam across such a vast  
geographical distance and within very different climates from the  
rather specific Dutch sea-climate, however, makes me to assume there  
might be more than a casual interest in this project amongst list  
members.

The site will be available from the launch onwards.

Kind regards,

Eric


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Skycatcher: an art project of Luna Maurer

De Balie Amsterdam
Sunday November 5, 2006  / 16.00 hrs.
http://www.debalie.nl/media


World-premiere of the project ‘Skycatcher’ by artist Luna Maurer. An  
installation on the roof of De Balie, centre for culture and politics  
in Amsterdam, takes a picture every 5 minutes of the perpetually  
changing skies. Already well over 100 thousand images have been  
archived so far in the project database: Always the same viewpoint,  
yet never the same picture.

The skies, mostly strewn with clouds, have played a tremendously  
important role in the Netherlands’ visual arts for many centuries,  
because of their painterly and poetic qualities. The Dutch sea- 
climate ensures a constant interplay of constellations of clouds,  
rain, blue skies, covered and clear skies. With the skycatcher the  
visitor of the website is offered the opportunity to make her or his  
own selections, out of the thousands of images recorded by Maurer’s  
installation to date, and thus experience their endless multiplicity.

During the afternoon Luna Maurer will present her project, while  
guest speakers offer their personal / professional comments, a.o.:  
Pier Siebesma, meteorologist working for the Royal Dutch  
Meteorological Institute (KNMI), and Eric Kluitenberg, media  
theorist, De Balie.

A specially produced poster of the project will be on sale during the  
presentation, which displays one year of variable skies in A0 format...

The project will be in operation from July 2005 till July 2007.

The website of skycatcher will go ‘live’ on November 5, 2006:
http://www.sky-catcher.nl

Special thanks to the Fonds Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst

Admission: free

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De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
Amsterdam
http://www.debalie.nl