THINGS TO CONSIDER

While an idea of motion triggered light installation has been with me for a long time while working on this project I could not narrow down the form or function for it. The proposal has to answer four key questions

Where?

Why?

What?

How?

and no specific idea/solution I came up with answered all of them together, there was always a detail that did not match, the ever present question without an answer before the glimpse of an idea even developed to a presentable form.

As a result of that I became more and more critical and started asking more detailed questions, trying to find what was the mistake in my thinking. I came back to my human traffic analysis I gathered through my animations and only then did I realize I had asked a wrong question altogether: there is no one form you can give to peoples' movement as it is random and temporal, in constant flux. Therefore, any arbitrary form placed on site would be out of context.

SCRATCH FILM

Last week we were experimenting with scratch film making to explore the materiality and physical qualities of film that we are so used to in digital form. What started as playing around and scratching emulsion off the leader, without any plan as to what we wanted to show through it, gave quite surprising results:

I started doodling shapes based on the light shapes from the film and animated motion around them as a basis for motion directing piece of architectural furniture.

MOVEMENT AND CONTEXT

Following my first attempts at motion tracking I decided to put them in the context of the whole site. Again, what i was interested in is to try to identify any patterns or recognize places where people take most turns and move in different directions rather than following the path along the river.

There are two main groups of people passing through South Bank: the first being people going to/from work, mostly there from Monday to Friday in the mornings and aftenoons and the second: tourists and people coming there for arts, sightseeing and walks. While the first group usually rushes past the site to get to their workplaces on time, the second has a more leisurely way of walking; meandering and taking random turns, clearly enjoying themselves and soaking the atmosphere of the place.