A year-long performance.

Spukhafte Fernwirkung involved manually collecting every photo uploaded to www.road.is—a website that uses a vast network of webcams to show the road and driving conditions of Iceland—each day for a year. I missed trudging around Iceland in my snow boots, so engaging with the landscape remotely for two years was a way for me to stay connected to the country. Moreover, whereas the digital is dominated by metaphors of space, with terms like cyberspace or virtual reality, I was interested in time, because time is (digitally-speaking) ignored, or viewed as a frustration—the time it once took a dial-up modem to connect to the Internet, or how long it takes to download something. Moreover, I was also drawn to the low-resolution nature of the images—measuring just 640 by 480 pixels each—which gave them a glitchy, yet painterly quality.