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Installation commissioned by FACT and the ODI for the group exhibition The New Observatory.
This dual-channel video and audio installation features a lone waverider buoy deployed in Liverpool bay which is used to gather various information about sea-wave height, period and direction. Inspired by the work of painter J.M.W Turner, the piece foregrounds those elements of information-gathering which are lost by numerical and geographical data depictions: the wild forces of the world, and the angst of the instruments that face them. The work comprises a motion-corrected video of the buoy at sea, synthesised sound-waves produced from tracking and stabilising the buoy in the video frame, a motionless online representation of the buoy and its produced data, and a waverider buoy similar to the one filmed in Liverpool bay.
Preliminary research for this work was conducted with the National Oceanography Center in Liverpool and supported by EU COST Action (IS1307) - New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter'.
Materials:
Video with sound (channel 1: 15:35 mins, channel 2: 24 mins); waverider buoy.
Dimensions:
85 diam. x 320 cm (buoy w/ plinth)
70 x 70 x 165 cm (monitors w/ plinth)
variable (installation)
Related publication:
Gauthier, David. 2019. “Phase to Phase: On Oceanic Oscillations, Measurements, Predictions, and Chronographs.” ASAP/Journal 4 (3): 487–95. https://doi.org/10.1353/asa.2019.0048.
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