Eastpoint (September 15, 2004)

2004–6

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.

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Exhibition History

Title: Eastpoint (September 15, 2004)
Artist: Wolfgang Staehle (German and American, born Stuttgart, 1950)
Date: 2004–6
Medium: Single-channel digital photograph display, color, silent, 24 hr.
Classification: Variable Media
Credit Line: Purchase, Henry Nias Foundation Inc. and Denise and Andrew Saul Gifts, 2006
Object Number: 2006.266
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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