Panoramic Camera System
As part of the restoration project, improvements to access include live views (video images) to be relayed from the top made available to all visitors including those unable to climb the 311 steps.
See the real time views from the top of the Monument
Video artist Chris Meigh-Andrews has been commissioned to develop a new outdoor digital moving image installation featuring ambient responsive panoramic images that will be relayed from the top of Monument of the Great Fire of London.
Meigh-Andrews, who is Professor of Electronic and Digital Art at the University of Central Lancashire, has previously made a series of video installations and digital projections using renewable energy systems in which the history and location of the site are central to idea behind the images and structures. In 2004 he produced “Interwoven Motion”, a solar and wind powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest, presenting a flow of images of the landscape admired by the influential Victorian writer and critic John Ruskin.
This new ambient responsive outdoor installation on the Monument, commissioned by Julian Harrap Architects, is being developed in collaboration with Sandbox at the University of Central Lancashire, with funding from the City of London Corporation. The installation will provide a continuous stream of digital images, 24 hours a day for three years with the potential to be shown either sequentially or in combination and accessed on a dedicated web site and as a “live” image via a video display at the base of the Monument.
See the real time 360-degree panoramic view from the Monument
A computer controlled digital camera will provide a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of the Monument. Changes to the image display will be facilitated by a dedicated computer system with interfaces and software to modify the image in response to changes in the conditions of the surrounding environment including wind velocity and direction and average temperature.
For further information about this project see: www.uclan.ac.uk
For further info on the work of Chris Meigh-Andrews, see:
www.meigh-andrews.com
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Last updated:
14 February, 2009