1975 ACME Gallery, London UK colour, 16mm, six screen installation “With Shore Line, [Welsby] took the radical step of making a work designed for showing continuously in a gallery…” Dave Curtis First shown at ACME Gallery, London in 1975. Shore Line was the first in a series of six-screen film installations to explore the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of mechanization. The subject of the sea has always been …
1983 colour, 16mm, horizontal projection installation “The potential of the installation as a sanctuary of peace binds the landscape to the mind via technology…” Chrissie Iles The original version of Rainfall was commissioned by the Slow Dancer Film Co-op in 1983. It was a site specific work for a jail cell in an abandoned Liverpool Police Station. The ceiling mounted projector, showers the space with rain drops. The installation evokes …
2013-2016 Nantes France This version of the cosmic clock series was installed in the public space of the Jardin C, and was directly associated to the French film makers collective Mire as part of the urban development of the Ile de Nantes. Presented in this very mediatised public space, it underlines the relevance of experimental practices in the technological evolution of contemporary creation and the essential axes in the work …
2010 Interurban Gallery, Vancouver Canada. The work used web cam, located on the roof of a twenty–story hotel, which observed a busy urban street with the working port of Vancouver and the snow–capped mountains beyond. This visual data was relayed to a series of five computers, which were programmed to feed a five–monitor display using the same sort of software as Taking Time. In this version of the project, the …
2008 – Software programming Brady Marks This site-specific installation uses digital technology to slow down the process of image recording in order to reveal human activity as part of the daily cycle of tide and weather. Eventually the imagery will encompass the annual repetition of the seasons as well as long term fluctuations associated with climate change. A small, high-resolution web cam is to be located in the Silva Bay …
Trees in Winter A Weather Driven New Media Installation 2006 The Image The stark expressive form of a large leafless tree was filmed against a background of changeable stormy winter skies. The horizon line was positioned low down in the picture plane; in the background, low wooded hills recede into the distance and in the lower foreground a slope of dry, frost bleached, grasses. The scene is of life clinging …
A Four Channel Video Installation At Sea is a fictional seascape. What at first appears as documentation of a dense fog rolling over a sea vista, stretched across the gallery wall, is in fact an amalgamation of separate sea images looped and edited across four screens. Though the documented subjects were separated by geographical location and time, the amalgamated images are linked in terms of subject matter (the sea and …
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2004 A Single Channel Interactive Video Installation Artspace Gallery, Sydney Australia The installation is comprised of a series of eight, three minute takes of a small alpine lake, all shot at the same oblique angle to the surface lake. The water surface fills the frame. A constantly changing pattern of ripples plays across the water surface, which reflects an inverted image of the trees and rocks on the opposite shore. …
Chris Welsby, 2007. An electronic media installation and dance collaboration with. Brady Marks (Software design), Scheherazaad Cooper (Odissi Dance) and Andreas Kahre (Percussion) Science, art and religion converge in the iconic dancing figure of the god Shiva. Shiva’s dance has its roots in the sacred Hindu texts and is copied from temple drawing but in our own times the statue is seen by physicists as a representation of sub atomic …
A Single Channel Video Installation2003 The imagery comprises a series of eight, three minute takes, all shot at the same oblique angle to the surface of a small alpine lake. The water surface fills the frame. A constantly changing pattern of ripples plays across the water surface, which reflects an inverted image of trees and rocks on the opposite shore. The eight three-minute takes, recorded over a period of several …
