"WATCHING THE WORLD,
The Encyclopedia Of The Now"

"WATCHING THE WORLD, The Encyclopedia Of the Now" is an online project and uses only Open Data sources for this purpose.
It photographs around the clock and around the globe the world in live mode by means of publicly accessible network cameras, presents the images simultaneously on the website in different modes and, with the help of AI, develops a new way of seeing, a new kind of photography.

The simultaneous views of the world can be curated by the viewers and used in their own way. More features will be added.

The network cameras look at public as well as at private spheres. The fact that different cultures value privacy differently is just one of the insights we may gain. What is seen in the pictures, determines the world and at the same time is in the eye of the beholder. This can be provocative.

Thousands of netcams are recorded in our system new ones are added every day. The algorithms download approximately half a million images from the web per day. The images are analysed by an AI (Artificial Intelligence) and archived in our memories for 48 hours before they will be overwritten by the following ones.

 

In collaboration with ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences).