{"id":833,"date":"2019-12-23T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/?p=833"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T09:30:10","slug":"a-camera-capturing-future-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"A camera capturing future change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats has been creating <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2015\/03\/experimental-philosopher-jonathon-keats-millennium-camera-experiment.html\">an ingenious little camera<\/a> that documents the flow and passage of time over a century or a millennium. It is a simple device that involves black paper gradually bleaching in response to the light let in through a pinhole and thus producing something like a single-frame movie.<\/p>\n<p>Keats explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Anything that stays in place will look sharp. Anything moving quickly, like cars and people, won\u2019t show up at all. And anything that changes slowly, like a growing tree, will be ghostly. You\u2019ll also be able to see bigger changes, like the ghost of a house that\u2019s been knocked down haunting the apartment building that takes its place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many reasons why this camera may not work but the camera is cheap to build and an exhibition of each camera&#8217;s picture is already set to be opened in 3015 at the Art Museums of Arizona State University. 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