Antipodes (Asuncion, Paraguay / Taipei, Taiwan), 2013

This series of timelapse videos form part of a larger body of work, Antipodes, a primarily online artwork (www.antipodes.uk.com), launched on the Northward Equinox 2013, which captured and archived images from webcams located on opposite sides of the planet. The website placed images from these antipodal webcams side-by-side to allow viewers to simultaneously view live footage from locations as far away from each other as it is possible to be. These paired places were watched by the website unblinkingly, for exactly one year.

Sometimes webcams unexpectedly change their view; become obscured by rain, ice, flies or volcanic ash; or went offline completely. If a connection with a webcam pair was permanently lost, a timelapse video was created from the archived stills.

In addition to the nine time-lapse videos, a series of photographic prints were created from the continuous flow of images captured by the website and five unique drawings depicting antipodal geographies were created for the artist's solo exhibitions at Spacex, Exeter and Pheonix, Leicester, UK. Additionally, an installation of live webcam feeds displayed on ten paired monitors was created for the exhibition at Phoenix.

Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, in association with Spacex.