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Webcams give us the possibility to have a look at distant places/times in realtime. Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser, by Markus Kison, transforms this distant reality into something more tangible. Four webcam-streams from different parts of Europe (Denmark, crossing; Amsterdam, laundromat ; Berlin, courtyard and a marketplace in Holland) are projected on four acrylic models of the corresponding places.

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To make the projection fit on the models, the architecture of the places was rebuilt in a 3D application and printed on a 3D plotter so that the picture is projected on the same geometrical shapes as the original places.

The result are four "live-models" from a distant space, which can be regarded in 3D and can be "touched". With this material manifestation, the transmission, in contrast to the usual webcam, where transmission is not finished, is completed. The viewer adepts the webcam-stream as "real".

Video of the installation and the installation + the realisation.

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