The new piece Strip : Lakeshore East, in production since last summer, will be installed April 22-July 29 2012 on the 80 foot long Jackman Goldwasser Video Facade of the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, as part of a show centering around contemporary models of time, curated by Adelheid Mers and titled “The Hairy Blob”. The website for the show will constitute a satellite exhibition, “The Asteroid Belt”, slowly growing and changing form throughout the show, and will include commentary by a wide invited cast of participants as well as additional materials from the artists: http://hairyblob.net.

The piece, projected across the 2nd floor wall of the building, will be projected 7 days a week from 3pm-10pm. It will be viewable from within the center during daylight hours, and from the street outside as well after dark.

The full duration video projected on the facade may be viewed right here on this very website.

Installed April 22-July 29 2012 on the 80 ft long facade of the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, as part of the show The Hairy Blob :  http://hairyblob.net/

To make this piece I rode my bicycle throughout the year, in all seasons, day and night, on multiple paths through a unique part of Chicago that has been completely transformed by human artifice, in the process losing any sense of a consistent ground plane or uniformity of locale: it consists of violent oppositions between landscaped parks, underground service tunnels, parking-caverns inhabited by impounded cars and homeless derelicts, three level underground highways, manicured lake-shores, luxury living condos and walled in observation decks, fountains and fireworks, garbage dumps and engine rooms- all stacked on top of each other within less than a square mile.

The technical mechanism by which the panoramic image is generated is similar to the system I used for previous pieces in this series: A continuous video is shot from a camera mounted on a bicycle moving through a location. Consecutive moving frames from that single traveling shot, are spatially laid out next to each other so that each “slice” shows a moment a few seconds behind that shown by it’s neighbor. The intervals in time between these slices are constantly in flux, thus generating a landscape of shifting spatial proportions.

The piece is currently being developed for a live performance, called “Stripping”, in which live feeds from “drones” scanning the venue area will be converted into panoramic video strips in real time, alongside manipulated 4 track tape loops of location recordings (coming up July 20th, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago).

Following are some images from the development process: