Ana Voog

In her own words anacam was "the internet's 1st 24/7 art+life cam!"

Voog was born under a different name to a Lutheran minister father.

She later changed her name to Ana Clara Voog.

Voog attended high school in Stillwater, Minnesota.

Ana Clara Voog (born 18 April 1966) is a musician, visual artist, performance artist and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Voog is the former front woman of The Blue Up?, a pop rock band from the Minneapolis area.

Before that the band was under contract with Midnight Music Records (a fairly big independent record company at the time in the 1980s).

Her first full length record, Introducing Sorrow, a concept record, was never released because the owner, Nick Ralph, disappeared mysteriously.

It is still waiting to be released.

Before her fame as a 1990s pop culture phenomenon, a musical-visual-word artist, and one of the first internet media artists, she had local success as the frontwoman of the Minneapolis experimental pop band The Blue Up? the first all-female rock band from Minnesota.

She released an EP called Now and a single called "We are the Garden".

In 1995 she released a record on Columbia Records.

Ms Voog was signed by David Kahne, who has produced records for famous household names like Paul McCartney or The Bangles.

In 1995 her record was released on Columbia Records.

Voog was signed by Grammy award winner David Kahne, who has produced records for famous household names like Paul McCartney or The Bangles.

After Voog left Columbia she recorded anavoog.com.

Due to the inherent misogyny she found in the industry Voog left the business and went on to do anacam.

The name of the record “Cake and Eat It” was the muse to Courtney love's famous line.

On YouTube there is a video featuring John Peel announcing Come Alive by The Blue Up?

John Peelś Blue Up?.

After the group disbanded in 1996, she signed onto Radioactive/Wasteland Records (MCA) with support from Prince and the Revolution drummer Bobby Z. who then became her manager.

Recordings at Paisley Park followed in collaboration with musicians David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez on the track 'I was waving at you'.

David Sylvian on his contribution:

"The collaboration was primarily between Ingrid and Ana. They created a spoken word piece and were in something of a rush for a complementary backing track due to an urgent completion date. Budget problems I believe. Ana asked if I could come up with something. I did. More sound collage than composition if I remember correctly. The album was shelved for a couple of years but I understand it’s now due to be released. We haven’t heard the final results but wish her well with the project."

On 22 August 1997 Voog began anacam, one of the first webcams (inspired by JenniCam) that lifecasted, i.e., broadcast twenty-four hours a day live from a home.

On 22 August 1997, Voog began a webcam project named anacam.

Besides a view into Voog's personal life, anacam also incorporated performance art and visual experimentation.

Daily activities such as cooking dinner, vacuuming, and hosting visitors fill out the non-interactive periods on anacam.

Other activities on the webcam range from chatting with cam-watchers, playing music, and ornate performance pieces involving household items.

While sex and nudity played only a small part in what could be seen on cam, Voog gained considerable attention, and criticism, for the portrayal of nudity and sexual activity on her live webcam.

Voog distinguished the racier elements of her project from pornography, stating that the "site isn't about sex, but sexuality and SENSUALITY..."

In contrast with one-time collaborator Isabellacam, which was self-described as "a completely original take on female produced erotic content", Voog views sexuality on anacam as a part of her life, as she describes in the rest of the quotation: "...is a PART of this site because that is part of my life."

Since 1998 the most prolific part of her work was done in so-called "anagrams".

On anacam.com a whole section of the site called anapix was dedicated to pictures created by users using Voogs work.

From the beginning of anacam, Voog accompanied the webcam with a blog in a section of her site, analog and in her LiveJournal, started in 2000.

Voog transcribed her earlier, hand-written journals to her online blog.

She expresses herself in many forms of writing.

Voog also produced many varieties of art, including video, paintings, drawings, and photographs.

In May 2002, Voog began to freeform crochet hats.

Each is unique, and she sells them via her website.