Eastpoint (September 15, 2004)
Wolfgang Staehle German and American
Not on view
Staehle is best known for large-scale real-time video transmissions that project sites from around the world onto the walls of a gallery or a museum. Set in the same Hudson River Valley that inspired American painters such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, Eastpoint (September 15, 2004) represents a single day from a monthlong video transmission that consists of more than eight thousand still images synced to real time. Thus, a viewer of this work at noon on any given day sees an image of noon on September 15, 2004. The images change almost imperceptibly yet reveal a seemingly infinite set of variations on a single scene.
