Blazay and I began wondering what was happening on the web with this sudden absence. Creativity online ranges from the trite and opportunistic, to heartfelt camp, to readymade panoramas, to witty engaged manifestos, to artist's diaries, and, we're sure, beyond.

A peculiar commercial site advertises an old link to a webcam once perched atop the World Trade Center with the caption reading "Real-time view of the Hudson River from WTC" at ; and if you can figure out what they do, tell us.

Our favourite readymade panorama site is a particularly cheery touristy one originating on Staten Island and offering city views of the WTC from a live webcam . Apparently, the composition has not been altered and there are other similar views available of the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. The shot is refreshed every ten seconds, so it's kind of like a slow movie, but you can even zoom in to sate your scopophilic pleasure, and drag away the captured image.

Wolfgang Staehle, co-founder and defender of New York's The Thing website and scene, brings found surveillance back to art with his live-feed videocam captures of Lower Manhattan's skyline, which, coincidentally and eerily, were being projected on the walls of New York's Postmasters Gallery days before, during, and after the attack .

On a similar but more committed front, the New York Surveillance Camera Players are culture jammers extraordinaire. Bravely countering electronic surveillance cameras throughout their city and challenging recent advocacy for curtailed freedoms, they invoke Benjamin Franklin's statement that "[t]hey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" . Their site compiles commentaries, manifestos, descriptions of their actions, hate letters, etc., all in enthusiastic but ethically anarchistic fashion. (Another cogent and engaged website .)

For one of the silliest sites in response to the attacks, 911 Ground Zero acts simply as an undiscriminating databank of digital stills and flash animations, ranging from the utterly inane to the Skate Snake to Kasai's campy Virgin Mary superimposed over the new New York . And, if you're in the mood, try playing the "game" Remembering The Towers in Flash 5 . Tell us what you think!

In contrast, there is the trenchant personal account of 9-11 by British artist Nick Currie. He weaves his personal and frequent past dealings with catastrophes into his reflections on current events at .

We're still very curious about the nature of catastrophe art, art in times of social trauma, and will be keeping an eye on how all this develops. Till then, happy peeping--for surveillance appears to have won the day!

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