DLDscape: [situ art] by J. Scriba

The DLDscape, created during the three days of DLD 2009 by visual media artist Jürgen Scriba, is possibly the highest-resolution group picture to date (12 Gigapixels) and currently Scriba's most complex work of [situ art]. The term refers to art created at or in relation to a specific place ("in situ"). Like Scriba's projects in airports or railway stations this one shows less of concrete venue but rather a situation: a conference - a gathering of a large crowd linked by common interests and the desire to communicate with each other and the outside world. Trying to capture this constellation the artist used an automatic camera recording images of the conference participants, staff, media people etc. as they passed from one of the buildings into another one, thus capturing about 1000 participants in the final composing.

Jürgen Scriba: "I wouldn't call this photography as I operate the camera without performing any of the creative tasks photographers would define as the essence of their art: creating a picture out of a carefully chosen frame of reality, capturing the composition in that precise 'decisive moment'. (...) Considering those images a stream of more or less interchangeable raw material I tried to create a picture of the crowd by re-mapping the serial images into two-dimensional space. The resulting picture currently has no physical form as it would require a high-quality printout of at least a hundred square meters in size to reveal all the detail it contains."Please feel free to explore the work as zoomable picture in pixel space. Also, you might want to know more about the making of DLDscape.