Short Films about Flying is an open edition of unique cinematic works that were generated in real-time from existing data on the World Wide Web.

Each 'movie' combines a video feed from a Web camera of the Logan Airport in Boston—provided by a commercial website—with randomly loaded net radio sourced from elsewhere in the world. Text grabbed from a variety of online message boards is periodically inserted, appearing like cinematic intertitles.

Since visitors to the commercial website were able to remotely control the Logan Airport camera, each 'movie' is shot and paced by its own (unsuspecting) camera person.

Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead are British artists working with video, sound and electronic networked space.

Much of their gallery and site specifi c work to date looks at how the simultaneity of global communications systems like the Internet are changing the way we perceive the world around us.

Having exhibited widely both nationally and internationally over the last decade, Thomson & Craighead are also among the fi rst artists to have new media artworks held in the British Council collection (Google Tea-towels & Decorative Newsfeeds), the Arts Council collection (Short Films about Flying & Triggerhappy) and by private collectors in the USA (Beacon).