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A large scale installation where a continuous live moving image is created by the relay from a small camera mounted on a model train as it tracks through a sculptural landscape of circuit boards.
A large scale installation where a continuous live moving image is created by the relay from a small camera mounted on a model train as it tracks through a sculptural landscape of circuit boards.
What started as a playful experiment while i was a student at the Royal College of Art, evolved into my MA show, and on graduating my first solo exhibition at Norwich Outpost. I was selected to develop this work further into a large scale installation for East International Exhibition 2009 (with support from ACE) and the installation then toured as my first institution solo show to Trafo Gallery Budapest. Other versions of this work has been exhibited in Transformer exhibition and symposium London, Camberwell Arts Festival London and a solo exhibition in Frome Somerset.
> EAST INTERNATIONAL 2009
A single monitor displays a continuous tracking shot through a seemingly ambiguous landscape, reminiscent of staring out at in-between places through of a train window as the scenery hypnotically speeds past. Vague outlines of what appears to be buildings and familiar terrain are quickly interrupted by distortions of a constantly changing focal range causing colourful and almost painterly abstractions to interfere with the journey that has no obvious beginning or end.
Entering further into the gallery space reveals the source of the continuous moving image - created by the live relay from a small camera mounted on a model train as it tracks through a constructed landscape of circuit boards. The large scale installation is built up like a train set in a mad max world from obsolete computer components architecturally arranged as a metropolis. The camera train itself, although always passing though the assemblage of circuit boards responds to aspects of the light levels, colour, background architecture of the surroundings making each passing view unique. The camera is deliberately the cheapest tiny CCTV available, with low resolution and poor focusing abilities which masks the banal details of the technological subjects it sees with dreamlike abstractions. The model-train-set-camera-rig produces an endless and unedited tracking feed looped straight to the monitor and presents the structural mechanics of filmmaking for all to see. The live camera picks up basic aspects of the audience while loosing any identifiable characteristics (unlike real cctv) and as anonymous shadows the figures simply merge into the surroundings on screen.
Due to the layout of the monitor and camera train, viewers are unable to view themselves on screen. All the installations in this series were similar in construction but very different in outcome as each version of the work produced it's own unique landscape aesthetic.
Below are a selection of images from some of the works so far in the series:
Entering further into the gallery space reveals the source of the continuous moving image - created by the live relay from a small camera mounted on a model train as it tracks through a constructed landscape of circuit boards. The large scale installation is built up like a train set in a mad max world from obsolete computer components architecturally arranged as a metropolis. The camera train itself, although always passing though the assemblage of circuit boards responds to aspects of the light levels, colour, background architecture of the surroundings making each passing view unique. The camera is deliberately the cheapest tiny CCTV available, with low resolution and poor focusing abilities which masks the banal details of the technological subjects it sees with dreamlike abstractions. The model-train-set-camera-rig produces an endless and unedited tracking feed looped straight to the monitor and presents the structural mechanics of filmmaking for all to see. The live camera picks up basic aspects of the audience while loosing any identifiable characteristics (unlike real cctv) and as anonymous shadows the figures simply merge into the surroundings on screen.
Due to the layout of the monitor and camera train, viewers are unable to view themselves on screen. All the installations in this series were similar in construction but very different in outcome as each version of the work produced it's own unique landscape aesthetic.
Below are a selection of images from some of the works so far in the series:
