Natalie Bookchin is a media artist based in Los Angeles. Her work has been shown widely in international venues including PS1, Mass MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, KunstWerke, Berlin, the Generali Foundation, Vienna, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Shedhale in Zurich. She has developed projects for Tate Museum, the Whitney Museum, Walker Arts Center, and Creative Time. She has received grants from Creative Capital, California Arts Council, Daniel Langlois Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Art Fellowship. She is co-Director of the Photography and Media program at the California Institute of the Arts where she teaches.
http://calarts.edu/~bookchin

Location Insecure is a bitter-sweet global city symphony seen through the lens of security webcam, which although probably unintended for public viewing, were not secured by passwords and found on the Internet. The video offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the city symphony, the early twentieth century documentary genre that celebrated the modern city and industrial development through a depiction of a day-in-the-life of a city and its inhabitants. The human recorder of the city is multiplied to infinity with the proliferation of webcams, everywhere and always on, and monitored by an unlimited number of remote observers. The video depicts the experience of asynchronous and non-linear space and time of the Internet, where one jumps from continent to continent and from day to night with a single click of the mouse.