Friday 12 October 2012

Art Studio Webcams

Apparently you can get a live webcam of Damien Hirst's studio, where you can see all the exciting multi-million pound creativity as it happens.   Gripping!

Have a look here....

DAMIEN HIRST'S STUDIO WEBCAM

Hmm...not much happening, is there?  In fact, you won't see Hirst himself doing anything arty - he's got assistants for that.

So I had a look for some others.  Here's Antonino Cammarata, painting away at landscape in Sicily...

ANTONINO CAMMARATA'S LIVE STUDIO CAM

Antonino - where are you?

Here's David Oleski in Boston.

DAVID OLESKI LIVE WEBCAM

Er, he's not here either...

Now, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei also set up a webcam.  He did the sunflowers seeds at the Tate as part of the Unilever series - you may even have the odd sunflower seed yourself.  In fact, they're currently selling on Ebay at £28 each.

Ai Weiwei with his Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern . Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA

Weiwei launched several webcams broadcasting from his studio back in April on a website called “Weiwei Cam”. The webcams allowed you to see Ai working, giving you a view of his office, desk, courtyard, and even his bedroom.

This was meant to highlight the issue of surveillance in China. Ai is currently under constant surveillance by the Chinese government due to his open criticism of them.  

Unfortunately, the authorities stepped in and shut down the webcams.  So you can't see him either...

3 comments:

  1. An artist named Randy Welborn local to Southeast Texas has a live webcam on his website: http://randywelborn.com/webcam/index.shtml

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    1. Thanks for that, Doyle. I had a look at Randy in action in his studio!

      Are you any relation to Mr Welborn...?

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  2. There's a live art studio web cam on the hauntedartist.com web site. It is available Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. You can hear all types of things going on including EVP. During daylight hours, the artist works in the studio and runs a closeup web cam on her drafting table while working on paintings and jewelry.

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