Seen - David Rokeby

Screen Display Example

Seen - David Rokeby

Venice Biennale 2002 "Next Harmony City" Canadian Pavilion

Social and temporal architecture of public space

1. People (and pigeons) were removed from the context(맥락) of the architecture

2. The trajectories(궤적) of the extracted(추출된) people and pigeons were tracked and rendered

3. Echoing(에코) the extracted people produced processions, showing activity over longer time periods

       (1) 행진, 행렬  (2) (차례로 나타나는) 사람들의 줄

4. Finally, the process was reversed, revealing(드러내다) the architectural context and hiding motion

San Marco Flow - David Rokeby

http://vimeo.com/15070143

"San Marco Flow" layers all the actions of people and pigeons on Piazza San Marco in Venice into a pair of evolving images representing two views of the recent history of activities there. The images are, in effect, lit by animate presence; things that are not moving are invisible. Walking pigeons leave worm-like traces. Gathered people abstract themselves through their shifting motions. Tour groups flow across the image like a river. The left side accumulates the activities into a very long exposure image that develops visibly over the course of several minutes. This image has layer upon layer of traces building into a rich and complex image that is very painterly and find many resonances with the history of Art and the history of the piazza itself. In the projection on the right, the past fades more quickly resulting in a gently dynamic flow. The evolving images are presented as two video projections mirrored at their point of meeting. They are different readings of the same unfolding source material providing a kind of stereoscopy into the dimension of time. They present a record of the temporary social architecture that is shaped by the permanent physical architecture of the piazza.