Monument

An ambient responsive outdoor video installation on the Monument in the City of London provides a live stream of real-time video images 24 hours a day with the potential to be shown either sequentially or in combination. The images will be accessible on a dedicated web site and as a live image-sequence broadcast on a video display adjacent to the Monument at ground level.

the latest image from the monument

Following on from "Interwoven Motion," a NESTA-funded project to develop a prototype self-powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest in 2004, new media artist Chris Meigh-Andrews has been commissioned by Julian Harrap Architects to produce an ambient responsive outdoor video installation on the Monument in the City of London. Meigh-Andrews, who also directs the Electronic and Digital Arts Unit at UCLan, is developing this new work in collaboration with Sandbox, with funding from the City of London Surveyors.

The installation provides a live stream of real-time video images 24 hours a day with the potential to be shown either sequentially or in combination. The images will be accessible on a dedicated web site and as a "live" image-sequence broadcast on a video display adjacent to the Monument at ground level.

A special camera array provides a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of the Monument. Changes to the video stream image display are controlled via a dedicated computer system with interfaces and software to vary the rate of image switching (from one image to the next in a continuous cycle) and/or to provide a complete panorama within a single frame. These image variations are made in response to changes in the ambient conditions of the surrounding environment such as wind velocity and direction and average temperature.

Chris Meigh Andrews website related to this project can be found http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/edau/projects/Monument.htm

This project is now live and be seen at http://www.themonumentview.net