Appropriating, processing, and interweaving several existing webcam feeds of Mount Fuji,
FUJI is a durational piece for four seasons.
FUJI examines the authenticity of networked, spatiotemporal experiences of distant nature, sacred sites, and sacred icons.
[ + ]
The overwhelming immediacy and delirious variety of live broadcasts available via the Internet, as well as the current incitement to communicate with distant but real subjects, alter our experience of space which is invariably mediated through images.
In FUJI, the gap between the real place and its representation no longer exists.
FUJI is a voyage across deep time, experienced minute by minute, day by day - a longing for a place that could never be, yet, evidently, always is.
a project by
nurit bar-shai
system design and development: marc schwartz
thanks to helen thorington, jo-anne green, noa turel, M&P.BS
and all those who made this journey possible
special thanks to: yishay schwerd