Hidden Cam Makes Art
Tim Knowles, a British artist living in London, has a unique perspective on art: creating devices or machines that themselves make the art. He has drawn on this theme in a recent project called simply, Spy Box. For this, he put a hidden camera into a postal box and mailed it from his studio straight to a gallery, where the results were to be displayed. The camera took a photo every 10 seconds, 6,994 in total, which he has compiled into an animated image on his website.
The Spy Box fits into the same theme as some of his other works, like placing canvases underneath tree branches with pens attached and letting the wind create the drawings, or another where he mailed a pen on a spring in a box to himself, which scribbled all over a canvas inside. Is it art? We don't know, but we like it.
From Tim Knowles
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Dominic Rout @ Jun 26th 2007 7:31AM
Art or not, it's still interesting.
ries @ Jun 26th 2007 9:05AM
I really love Tim Knowles' work but his perspective on art maybe isn't as new or unique as one may think. Jean Tinguely already made machines that made "abstract expressionistic" paintings in the 60's...
CapitalC @ Jun 26th 2007 3:40PM
I'm sure the USPS would love this - all those wires and other gadgets. How long do you think it would snap photos before someone (or some machine) flagged it as a bomb? ;)
Adrian @ Jul 18th 2007 2:20AM
I'm surprised he hasn't put a GPS in there as well, to find out where the parcels go... it might explain the mystery of the parcels that take four-days to get to the next town!
up yours @ Jul 30th 2007 12:12AM
i think it's totally art. that's awesome!