Through webcams and live streams we can perceive pictures and sounds from virtually any geographical location bypassing an institutionalized mediator. Still, as individuals we experience the physical separation from our communication partner to a worse degree than ever. In a world which promises borderless communication everybody is a sender and receiver but also becomes a well observed user. It is inevitable that we leave footprints everywhere in logfiles and databases. At the same time we ourselves, experience the desire to eavesdrop e.g. on one of the countless web sites with private or public web cams.
Privacy issues are the hot topic in the current media scenario.
The starting point for the live piece are two public web cams and the voice of an observer. He is at home, in his cocoon, on his own. For us he is a place-holder, one of the countless web users, one out of millions of telephone calls being relayed simultaneously by the same satellite. His voice is a stream in the global noise of communication. We filter it out, make it public, loose it in interferences with other sounds, it disappears and reappears within our earshot.