Screen captures from publicly streamed Webcams circa 2008-2012,

Appropriating early Internet live-streaming networks-- the stressed bandwidth of the time along with early webcam technology afforded a particular kind of pixeled, glitchy abstraction. This living layer of network expression help evoke these digital portals into the early millenial domestic space The idea of presence itself and the intention of presence is considered ​ BRB, internet slang for "Be Right Back", was often used in the chat and mirrors this expectation of virtual presence. ​ hb