"Visitors to a Gallery- referential self, embedded".

"Visitors to a Gallery- referential self, embedded". 2008 by Stanza

The gallery surveillance system embeds the visitors to the gallery inside the artwork.

CCTV in public spaces.

This artwork uses the live CCTV system inside an art gallery or any public space to create a responsive mediated architecture. This project continues where Publicity version one (2004) left off, ie hacking or utitlizing existing real time CCTV networks.

This version is made inside the Plymouth arts centre where I am artist in residence for a month (feb 2008). Custom made electronics and sonar sensors are placed to create an installation in the gallery space. Visitors to the main upper gallery control the CCTV feeds by their own movement in the space. The piece becomes a semi performative controlled system. The proximity to the main ultrasound sensors affects the aesthetic of the image.

This piece is responsive to the body in the data space. The visitors act as an intervention in the the gallery space and become embedded in the artwork. This is a mediated environment using live CCTV feeds in the gallery space. The gallery surveillance system embeds the visitors to the gallery inside the artwork. The visitor is captured inside the data space as a part of the subject. The visitor to the gallery becomes the medium for the artwork.

The idea of using the information inside the space is also to make the space transparent and extend the gallery space outwards.

The gallery space is also extended virtually onto the internet as the feeds from the installations images are broadcast live. The visitors to the gallery thus become embedded in the artwork and the larger system of data and information over the internet.

Stanza. 2008

Also see.

Publicity. version one (http://stanza.co.uk/publicity/index.html). This work is an extension of this work. Infact, "Visitors to a gallery", is version two in this serirs.

Self-reference is a phenomenon in natural or formal languages consisting of a sentence or formula referring to itself directly, or through some intermediate sentence or formula, or by means of some encoding.

Technology: Live CCTV from the Gallery. Projectors, custom electronics.

Download sensor layout

Download sensor notes

Touring.

This work is available for touring and for any public space wishing to expand on my concept of CCTV in public spaces as artwork. Any architects or curators wishing to work with me to expand this project please get in touch. Email stanza@sublime.net

Support for this version.

Concept, images, design, visualisation, installation, hack, copyright Stanza. 2008

Thanks to Plymouth Arts Centre, Paula Orrell and Helen Sloan of Scan. Part of distributed South, which is a project funded by The Arts Council England.

Thanks for support and custom electronics from Ian Steele.

Thanks to an AHRC creative fellowship and Goldsmiths digital studios.

KEYWORDS: network, CCTV, networked, generative, sensor, installation, real time audio, visualization, environment. responsive.