Art Installation: Highway 50, Nevada Sunday, August 15, 2010

www.delapppe.net Media Artist Joseph DeLappe presents documentation of a kinetic, projected video and internet live streaming video installation. The work features an 8 foot tall kinetic, Ferris wheel type sculpture, upon the interior surface of the wheel is sculpted a continuous, miniature scale model of a section of Highway 50, including roadbed and ground scenery. The entire wheel structure is motorized for continuous motion. A color mini-video network camera is mounted to the outside supports of the structure - it hovers directly over the rotating road surface, illuminated by two tiny lights. The camera is a specialized unit that functions as a surveillance camera and web server all in one unit - feeding a live image that is connected directly to the internet. The point of view of the camera records, in real time, the image as if one were driving on the highway late at night with the only illumination being the headlights of one's car. The resultant video image, which for all appearances looks as if one was seeing a driver's point of view, is shown, project large upon the adjacent wall of the gallery and was being streamed, live, to the internet during exhibition hours on DeLappe's website.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYkB3QZHmjk&hl=en