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Full Title. " Urban Generation; trying to imagine the world from everyone elses perspective, all at once". by Stanza 2002 - 5. Urban Generation I. (grid version) Urban Generation II. (grid version) enter - Urban Generation (800 by 600) version - live now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multiple CCTV cameras are accessed randomly in real time to make an urban tapestry. What you see is an evolving, generative artwork. These images are from taken London, and they happen as you see them, in real time. The installation versions of this work can be presented in art galleries using projectors or plasma displays. This online artwork represents many realities that exist in city space. The observed real time surveillance society is re worked into a series of grids. This presents London to a global online audience. The data that you see is protected by the data protection act. Here it is re mixed into what you see, which is this online artwork that look like a filmic experience. First made in 2002 the work was recently re -tested and some technical issues have been ironed out for 2005. The online version now runs as a series of twelve real time perpectives of the emergent city experience ( this version is currently offline) . This 'film' is constantly evolving and will never be the same again, the images are not recorded. Each screen is a live real time image from a camera in the city of London. The artwork seeks to explores the rhizomatic multi nodal networked experience. Urban Generation draws on images across the networked city, the artwork creates a unique interpretataion of a multi point perspective that exists in time always in the present. A special installation version was commissioned and made for the Net Reality touring show. This gallery artwork used eight monitors ( see images below). The work toured various UK galleries. See also. Divided Worlds. Here is anotherwork it uses cameras in a diffrerent network (grid version) This work uses thousands of cameras from multiple networks and there has more chance of working. IE the world network is stronger....interesting.....a sort of global resolve, a generational image that keep going. (but nothing lasts forever......things change.) This works links to many different networks. Exhibition:This work is available for sale and for exhibitions. ONLINE NETWORKED ARTWORK ................ OFFLINE INSTALLATION OF LIVE DATA
Images from the offline installation set up at 20.21 gallery Scunthorpe. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Screen shot taken at nightime 31. 3. 2005
Installation shot taken 2007 in Finland.
Installations shot taken 2007 in Finland.
Stanza Installation shots...Space 4, Peterborough. 19 th Jan - 3rd. March 2006.
Complete list of venues for Net Reality Touring Show where Urban Generation has been exhibited as an installation. Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Itäinen Rantakatu 4-6 20700 Turku Finland Apirl 2007 Space 4, Peterborough. 19 th Jan - 3rd. March 2006. The Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn. 15th April - 13th May 2006. Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery . 9Th June - 9th July 2006. Q Arts, Derby. 12th Nov - 18 Dec 2005. 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2005. NOTE. SOMETIMES THE CAMERAS IN THIS NETWORK ARE DOWN, IE DUE TO TERRORIST ATTACKS OR TECHNICAL ISSUES SORRY.
Screen shot take at daytime london 11. 11. 2006.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology and installation details. The work ideally needs a plynth the size should be 2.45m by 3m by 35 cm. If no plynth its goes on the floor. The size of the shipping crate is. 54 cm by 66cm by 66 cm exact; weight approx 30 kg, contents fragile. Set up time approx four hours plus some assistance at the venue to set up the internet configuration. The work should be insured at the venue and during transit. For availability please contact Stanza at sublime.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the artwork:
The text below was commissioned for the Net Reality show curated by Michael Takeo Magruder and is written by Jo-Anne Green from Turbulence.org Net:Reality: http://www.net-reality.org/ The “net” version of Stanza’s Urban Generation is visually rich and noticeably silent. As twelve live data streams alternately stutter in and out of existence and flow into abstract patterns and textures, the “live” scenes captured in real-time on CCTVs scattered throughout London quickly morph into kaleidoscopic Rorschachs that alter our initial perceptions and demand analysis. A generative work, it calls into question the “urban generation,” a period during which the threat of terrorism has made our environment ripe for surveillance and privacy abuse. Private space has become public space, public space has evolved into covertly “governed” or overtly corporate space. While Stanza is well known for his interactive/participatory art, the “viewer” is forced to passively observe this piece, which simultaneously serves as a call to action. According to the Associated Press [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8501576/; July 7, 2005] “[a]n estimated 4.2 million cameras — largely concentrated in London and other major cities —observe Britons as they go about their daily business, [and] it is widely estimated that the average Briton is caught on various cameras up to 300 times on a normal day.” In the “reality” version of Urban Generation, the innards of a Dell computer, including an inoperable mouse and keyboard (rendering us powerless), are scattered across the surface of a large pedestal above which the gallery visitor must peer down, equating the “seer” with the elevated location of the majority of CCTV cameras. There are eight 15” LCDs, all of which display the “net” section of Urban Generation. Real and virtual, tangible and immaterial, fixed and constantly changing, the mass of wires, switches, circuit boards and LCD screens invokes the notion of the network exposed, turned inside out, laid bare for all to examine. Urban Generation combines interior and exterior, and makes visible that which invisibly and silently tracks our movements, habits, and preferences. It forces us to ask ourselves whether pervasive surveillance is inevitable, and whether it is sufficient to allow these billions of hours of stored data to serve as evidence after the fact rather than prevention.
Screen shot of Urban Generation from online version taken. 2005 All images and artwork copyright Stanza. 2005
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe 2005. NOTE. all images copyright Stanza. Please credit Stanza if you take images and put them on your blog. |
