Final Year Studio - Research - SPOTS - Gait Studies in LowResolution

Image courtesy of www.spots-berlin.de, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).

Here Jim Campbell developed a series of figurative short films for the media facade. These changed everyday and depicted various people in different situations. Here though Campbell directly targeted the low resolution of urban style screens by offering a tinted perspex screen that viewers passing by could view the media facade from. When viewed through this screen the facade pixels merged and created a slightly blurred but gapless image. Campbell himself is well known for working with high resolution images and their contrasts when converted to low resolution.

I think this is a very good attempt at tackling the low resolution displays usually associated with urban screens. Although with SPOTS the low resolution of the media facade gives it an architectural appeal, for displaying information it would render it not so good. This is because text would have to be massive to counteract the low resolution. It is an interesting area and begs the question at what resolution can architecture and information be balanced.

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