Sandbox working with media artist Chris Meigh Andrews
July 27, 2007
Following on from “Interwoven Motion”, a NESTA funded project to develop a prototype self-powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest in 2004, Chris has been commissioned to produce an ambient responsive outdoor video installation on the Monument in the City of London by Julian Harrap Architects. Chris is developing this new work in collaboration with Sandbox, with funding from the City of London Surveyors.
The installation will provide a live stream of real-time video images 24 hours a day with the potential be shown either sequentially or in combination and accessed on a dedicated web site and as a “live” image-sequence via a video display on an information node adjacent to the Monument at ground level.
A special camera array will provide a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of the Monument. Changes to the video stream image display will be controlled via a dedicated computer system with interfaces and software to vary the rate of image switching (from one image to the next in a continuous cycle) and/or to provide a complete panorama within a single frame. These image variations will be made in response to changes in the ambient conditions of the surrounding environment such as wind velocity and direction and average temperature.
