«Watching The World – The Encyclopedia Of The Now» can be understood as an enormous digital camera that lets viewers curate and personally navigate simultaneous views of the planet. It is an art and photography project that functions as an online exhibition, an experiment in artificial “intelligence” and big data, an open-source investigation, and a web-based work. It draws exclusively on publicly available data and records the world continuously, around the clock and across all continents, using network cameras that anyone can access. The captured images appear simultaneously on a website and can be experienced in multiple ways. Through this, artificial “intelligence” emerges a new form of seeing – a new kind of photography. The endless stream of images can be sorted and organized in real time by content or by visual criteria. What appears in these images defines the world while remaining subject to interpretation.