The aptly named “Millennium Camera” is a functional art piece that intends to capture how the landscape in Tuscon, Arizona changes over the next 1,000 years via an extremely long-exposure image.
The experimental pinhole camera set up by University of Arizona research associate Jonathan Keats aims to encourage people to imagine what the future will hold.
Keats says:
“Most people have a pretty bleak outlook on what lies ahead. It’s easy to imagine that people in 1,000 years could see a version of Tucson that is far worse than what we see today, but the fact that we can imagine it is not a bad thing. It’s actually a good thing, because if we can imagine that, then we can also imagine what else might happen, and therefore it might motivate us to take action to shape our future.”
