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AFK.0
ij online:
AFK.0 uses an hourly updating
weathercam in Pincher Creek, a small and remote town in Canada. At noon
and 2pm local time three tiny figures appear in the picture, that otherwise
shows only a wide and empty snowscape. Their message: WRU [Where Are
You] and SPK [Speak]. The next hour they are gone, only some fresh cartracks
in the snow are left behind.
From my trailer home in
California I keep watching and saving images until the end of the short
winter day in Canada. What a contrast: I listen to lively noises around
me filling the warm afternoon air while watching the live image of this
lonely crystal cold landscape far north!
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misha onsite:
Three webcams are set up
at the local airport in Pincher Creek, Alberta, a small town where I
grew up. My collaborator, who is living in a trailor park in southern
California, and I have been watching the camera for days. We finally
agree on the time for the action. I enlist the support of my father
and sister who help stand with the message in front of the camera. My
brother and mother watch from the computer at home and call us on the
mobile when they have received the message.
The morning of the event,
there is so much frost that the entire landscape, plowed fields, power
lines, windmills, are covered with a thick coat of white. It is cold
and quiet. It feels good being out there. As we hold up the bright pink-lettered
signs, somebody from the town approaches and asks us what we are doing.
My father says "we're sending a message to Osama Bin Laden". He just
laughs. Being far away from the major urban centres makes it easy to
joke about things like this.
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