Did you see the “DejaVu” Movie with Denzel Washington, where they took photo- and videodata to construct a complete 3d view of a crime scene? Sounds like Sci-Fi? Then check out the demo of the photosynth-technology. They scan photos from any given database (e.g. Flickr) and ananlyze them for similarities to construct 3d models of any given space.

You can even test the application live on the web here.

Mario Klingemann spoke at the OFFF festival this weekend.
He presented some of his digital found footage experiments, where he uses data from the internet and recombines them in his flash experiments. The piece Flickeur is very atmospheric and suggestive, creating a very poetic work of net art.

“Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip.”

Island of Consciousness is a further development of the concept, together with sound artist Oleg Marakov.