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During quarantine, I've been gazing at the city through its public cameras, searching for absence of crowds. It’s an activity that offers some small assurance that people outside of my periphery might be staying safe at home, and the sense that I am there, somehow. .

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About three years ago I was looking for crowds, in Omnia per Omnia we traced the machinic gaze of the same public cameras as the brush strokes of 20 robotic swarm units. The physical movement of the collective, now dispersed.

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In the past, the movement of my robots were linked to the motion of a crowd, and now the multiple views of the city offering a sense of connection without proximity. These words by Haraway resonating differently — .

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To explore a "collective subject position that promises a vision of the means of ongoing finite embodiment, of (drawing / making) living within limits and contradictions — of views from somewhere.” .

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And some closing words about landscape drawing by Berger.

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