The act of capturing the picture, he adds, "was the only place that 'flying' really existed".
Dawson's depiction of time and place is remarkably well handled, and she achieves the double act of capturing a 1960s village with a native's authenticity and with the slight distortion, the prejudice and saturated colour, of an American abroad.
The act of capturing that broadcast signal is not against the law, thanks to early precedents set by Sony Betamax and Cablevision.
In light of this, social recording is beginning to take off, as there's a lot of room left to make the act of capturing video on the go more enjoyable — and interactive.
Not that most people are consciously thinking about what kind of museums their work will appear in later, or how it will be judged by future generations, but the act of capturing, writing down or recording something is deeply entangled with those concerns, conscious or not.
But for Thierry, the act of capturing space is a much more personal process.
Self-proclaimed, "urban historian" and Instagram photographer Demid Lebedev is a teenage daredevil, channeling his creativity through the act of capturing the New York City skyline at nearly 1,400 feet above ground.
So in a world where art is now being generated using machines and algorithms, it's only natural that these same code-based practices should take on the creative act of capturing a person's likeness, mood, and personality.
In these stories, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen, as in all his writing, Alex performs an act of distillation, capturing the very essence of fiction.
Meldaikyte says her sculptures are an act of preservation, capturing these interactions so people can look back and see how it used to be.
