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Rorschcam NYC

Rorschcam NYC is the third in the Rorschmap Series, following Rorschmap and Rorschmap Street View. Rorschcam NYC takes publicly-available video from surveillance cameras around New York and transforms it into live, kaleidoscopic moving images. These cameras are live and operated by the video from surveillance cameras around New York City Department of Transportation. The user can see all of the cameras on a map at their website by selecting a camera from the top to start. There are hundreds of cameras and they compose the portrait of the city that unfolds with real-time images of traffic. For the artist, this work is pointing at the constructive nature of Google Maps being more than a map and CCTV cameras being more than just cameras. As he continues, they are both part of automated information-gathering systems, which affect our daily lives. (This work is not affiliated to the DoT in any way.)

Bridle James