Going Public: 360
Michael Dax an Ïacovone, Billy Friebele, Bruce Feldman, Kathryn Zazenski
Recently members of Freespace Collective created series of video collaborations, traveling around the world and shooting videos in public spaces. This resulted in in two projects: The 360 Project and Space over Time. For the latter, public spaces in several cities were recorded with video cameras and the footage was layered on top of itself, with the most recent layer on top. This created a compression of time, revealing patterns of human motion in cities around the world.
Recently this project was exhibited at the (e)merge Art Fair in Washington, DC. In this installation a live camera recorded the motion of viewers passing through the fair and layered this footage on top of past events. We juxtaposed this live time compression with the aforementioned footage shot around the world. The result was a cultural comparison of human interaction with spaces in different locations.
The 360 Project involved four artists working simultaneously in different locations: Indonesia, Finland, Bosnia, and United States. For a period of two weeks we visited public spaces in various cities and towns and shot a continuous 360-degree panning survey of space. These clips were shared over the internet, edited together in overlapping sequences and exhibited in the Duplex Gallery in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and at the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. Each day the video was updated with new footage. The result was an evolving global portrait of public spaces.
freespacecollective.com/projects/360-project-2
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