Ruins Of Light

Ruins of Light was a group of twelve-foot high steel enclosures with 5 video monitors each, incorporating images from live cameras, images, and video.

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Ruins Of Light

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1992
30 x 30 x 12 ft.
Four columns, 6 video cameras, 20 video monitors, custom electronics
Edition of 1

Ruins of Light was a group of twelve-foot high steel enclosures with 5 video monitors each, incorporating images from live cameras, images, and video.

Collection of Phoenix Percent for Art Program funded by the Community and Economic Development Department. This work was an interactive public artwork funded by the Phoenix Arts Commission 1% for Art Program, and was installed at the America West Sports Arena in Phoenix, Arizona for ten years. The work was made up of four twelve-foot high stainless steel enclosures which each enclosed five video monitors. The work incorporated images from six live cameras, 600 still images, and thirty minutes of motion video. By layering these various images on top of each other in real time the work never repeated itself. Certain images only came up at certain times of the day or certain times of the year, so the work conceptually functioned as a clock and a calendar. The work also responded to the activity of the people in the vicinity of the columns. The four stainless steel enclosures also contained the four real concrete structural columns of the building, and because the work maintained the look of support columns, the artwork was seen as though it were a structural element of the architecture. This theme was continued with respect to the images displayed on the video screens, which were typically Roman- or Greek-style columns.