Final Year Studio - Research - SPOTS

Video courtesy of www.spots-berlin.de

The SPOTS installation was a light and media facade at the Pottsdammer Platz located in Berlin. Commissioned by Cafe Palermo Pubblicita this matrix of 1800 convential fluorescent lights and yards of polyprop coloured film was designed by architect and artist office Realities:United for the client HVB Immobilien AG. Running for 18 months it was a new archtectural medium that allowed various artists to show speicifically designed interactive and film pieces of work. Each artist displayed his or her work from sunrise till midnight, and this included pieces from creatives such as British director Terry Gilliam and American media artist Jim Campbell. From midhnight to sunrise everynight 'Senor' by Carsten Nicolai was shown.

Here is a very good example of screen and building working together to create a new architectuaal medium. Although low resolution like the installtions at Urban Screens Manchester, this along with the screens shape gives a natural, mechanical,
but organic feel, a thing that is sometimes lost with todays obession with 'flat' hardware.

Above is a selection of work that feel is important to research in relation to the development of my project.

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