title: The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel
author: Kurt Caviezel
description: For the past 15 years, from his studio in Zurich, Kurt Caviezel has been monitoring 15,000 publicly accessible webcams located all over the world. By taking screenshots of any situation he found interesting he compiled an archive of more than 3 million images, categorizing them for recurring patterns and subjects. The dust jacket of the book contains all 15,000 web-links used by Kurt Caviezel to create this body of work. From the foreword by Joachim Schmid: Through years of camera surveillance the artist has compiled a virtually unreal amount of images, which have all been harvested from webcams. The quantity of images is of crucial importance here, because quantity (as is the case with many collections of things) at some point turns into quality. Only abundance enables the detection of recurring patterns. May the single image be just funny or banal or vacuous, in a series of similar ones it becomes a building block of knowledge. By sequencing kindred images, Caviezel makes order emerge from the torrent of images.
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  **Clive Cussler - Serpent**
  
  
  INTRODUCING A FRIEND
  
  
  When I was asked to introduce Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their friends who
  serve the National Underwater and Marine Agency, I accepted with great
  pleasure and enthusiasm. I've had the privilege of knowing Kurt and Joe for
  many years. We first met when they joined NUMA at Admiral Sandecker's
  invitation not long after Al Giordino and I came on board. Although we've
  never had the opportunity to work on the same project together, Kurt and Joe's
  escapades above and underwater have often fired my imagination and left me
  wishing I'd done that.
  
  
  In some ways Kurt and I are similar. He's a few years younger, and we hardly
  look alike, but he lives in an old remodeled boathouse on the Potomac River
  and collects antique dueling pistols, a wise choice when you consider how much
  simpler they are to maintain and store than the old. cars in my aircraft
  hangar. He's also into rowing and sailing, which sends me into exhaustion jus