Interactive installation, 3D engine software development

• Version A: PC computer, 4:3 beam projection, socle with mouse
• Version B: Software multiple on CD-ROM (10 Expl.)

Gleissenhorn Livecam claims to show the live weather conditions from the Gleissenhorn region in the online project of Vue des Alpes. The camera rotates at constant speed in an endless sweep, and every 10 minutes a new 360 degree image reflecting the daytime and weather shows up. The synthetic image is based on the computer's system time and date; it is a collage of pre-rendered 3D shots of weather situations, depending on the point in time.

This camera is a bit like the weather or traffic cams on the net, and somehow the images it delivers are not less true or real than images from the net.

On the other hand, it is also sort of a 'time machine': With the mouse, the user can set the date and time they want and watch the changes of light and weather. You can even move in time in both directions: Back to the year 0 AD and into the future until the year 3000.

For the Pro Helvetia version of the Gleissenhorn Livecam, an installational variant of the work, the user interaction part is omitted.

related:
• Gleissenhorn Livecam (Pro Helvetia version), permanent installation, 2003

• Mountain Top (Moscow Version), livestream installation, 2013
• Mountain Top (Baltic), livestream installation, 2005
• Loch (hole), livecam installation, 2009
• Nebel (fog), interactive installation, 2005
• Hotel Vue des Alpes, Internet project, 2000 ff.

shown at:
• Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (ch): "Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg", 2010/11
• Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch): "Somewhere Else is the Same Place", 2005/06
• SAC Swiss Alpine Club, Wildstrubelhütte (ch): "Wanderziel Kunst: Ein- und Aussichten", 2009
• BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (uk): "Package Holiday", 2005
• 21st Century Museum, Kanazawa; Yokohama Museum of Art; City Museum of Art, Chiba; Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya; Public Library Fukuoka; Goethe Institute, Kyoto (jap): Viper in cooperation with Image Forum, Tokyo "Swiss Video Landscape Today-Looped Sensations", 2005
• Jiff Mind Festival, Jeonju (kor): "Swiss Media Art Today" presented by plug.in, 2004
• Kunstverein Hannover (ger): "Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen", 2003/04
• Art Basel Miami Beach (us): Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Statements, 2003
• Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel(ch): "Gleissenhorn", 2002

text:
• Catalogue: "Somewhere else is the same place", Christoph Vögele (Hg.), mit Textbeiträge von Sarah Cook, Bernadette Fülscher, Sabine Rusterholz, Dominik Petko und Christoph Vögele, edition fink, Zürich 2005, 2. Auflage 2006, ISBN 978-3-906086-90-3 (d/e)
• Catalogue: "Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen", Stephan Berg, Martin Engler (Hg.), Kunstverein Hannover, 2003, ISBN 3-00-012475-6