This animation is a 24-hour segment built from screen shots of the latest project by internet team sensorium, made in collaboration with nmp-i, "Night and Day". The actual work is constructed of 22 live camera images gathered from all around the world, to show the passage of night and day across the planet in one single image.

Night and Day

Shortly before Christmas last year I met up with Yoshiaki Nishimura, one of the founding members of the award-winning internet team sensorium, at a Chinese restaurant in Roppongi, and asked him if sensorium would consider doing a collaboration project with nmp-international. He agreed and it was decided that I would be part of the team, and I rashly said I would also follow the work and write a production diary for nmp-i. The resulting work, "Night and Day", is now on-line, and I have to attempt to decipher my scribblings and try and do justice to the fascinating process, energy and talent behind what sensorium do.

I shall try to describe just how the piece was put together, and also to show something about what sensorium is and does. Many of us have begun to take the internet for granted, just like the television and radio before it. I hope that a peek behind the scenes of Night and Day will not only provide an insight into sensorium, but also something of just how extraordinary a beast the internet itself is.

But before you go any further, if you haven't done so already, go and have a look at the piece itself, http://www.sensorium.org/nightandday/

The Making of Night and Day.

What is sensorium?