Life Feed: Wedcams, Art, and People

From the very begging of the creation of a webcam, interpersonal life has been projected into society and given the okay for "peeping toms" or those interested in something they may not have been able to see before to experience a whole new world.  "In the disrupted transaction, the internet audience, not the therapist, becomes the silent listener, its presence anticipated by the act of recording. And with the recording, Ripps performs the subject of his therapy session: the projection of his selfhood in the internet's open space." We can now reach out into the open spaces of the internet, and find that other people are more interconnected then ever. We can see things we thought we would never see and experience something from someone elses point of view. After reading this article it is very evident that technology and the way in which we express ourselves from that technology is becoming vast. "It is the most expressive and open of mediums, a record of the immediate contact between the artist's body and the surface he's working with." The viewer of this new found art medium is completely ambiguous and unknown, which leaves the artist's intentions as they may see fit. If you are alone with a wedcam, are you truly alone and able to reflect an inner self to the world or would you be bombarded with the thought of unknown others watching? This is the question I suppose can only be answered by the artist.