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In 1993 a Cambridge University scientist established the world’s first webcam so he could see if there was any coffee available in the common room urn without having to trek down the hall himself to find out. Three years later Jenni Ringley became a media celebrity by webcasting her day-to-day life live on the Internet. Today there are countless streaming webcams online. Some are personal, some business-related, some governmental. These web-based cameras are the focus of my production. To my mind they limn the contours of a communication revolution.

In Live free webcams I track a homecam community with participants all over the globe. From the look of things everyone everywhere shares a similar material culture. People often comment that webcams are instruments of Big Brother. However homecammers are ordinary people. The things they point their cameras at are unregulated. The content of homecams stands outside of mainstream political or commercial interests, e.g. kids watching television, the view from a window, a guy at his computer, etc.

Live free webcams documents image-making approaches within the budding domain of webcam communication. When setting up their cameras, homecammers unconsciously reference the histories of photography and painting. However in many cases the images they produce pose a wealth of real-world questions. During the 20th Century, different art movements impacted painters and photographers. Some focused on disciplinary purity while others explored cross-influence. In this millennium however, the primary image-making impulse seems to come from pictures referencing other pictures - across all sorts of boundaries.