A Look at the Millennium Camera #ArtTuesday « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!


Jonathon Keats, an experimental philosopher and researcher at Arizona State University, is attempting to document landscapes around the world over the course of the next thousand years. Instead of using commercial or more modern cameras that we’re familiar with, he’s opted for pin-hole cameras that capture images via pin-sized holes. Hyperallergic shares the details.

Surveillance systems have long been criticized over their problematic usage as mechanisms for institutional censorship and voyeuristic invasions of privacy. Now, a photographic time capsule experiment is reimagining this technology not as a means to suppress, but as a tool to transform our relationship with the environment and implement sustainable development.

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