Andrew Stones - Accumulator 2003

Site-specific live video/audio event for the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland

Phase 1: colour CCTV camera and digital frame store system
[approx one frame per 4 mins from the shortest day 2002 to the longest day 2003]

Phase 2: video sequence, live colour CCTV system, video mixer,
video projector, custom screen 8300mm (w) x 5300mm (h),
original 10-channel audio from synchronised DVD and hard disc sources, 10-channel audio diffusion system,
steel/PVC constructions, custom lighting, voile screen enclosing tables and AV equipment array

installation views, National Sculture Factory, Cork

Commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory, Accumulator is a live video event which uses the interior of the Factory to generate, process and present a large-scale multi-media installation. Just prior to the shortest day in December 2002 a CCTV camera was installed, to capture an image of the Factory floor once every four minutes until the Summer Solstice six months later. A 30-minute video film is been edited from this material, and forms the central, large-scale projection for Accumulator.

Accumulator is a site-specific work in which the longer-term processes of the Factory - and the rhythm of days and nights over a period of six months - unfold in an interior transformed through the use of lighting and physical interventions. A 10-channel soundtrack, formed by processing audio recordings made in the Factory, fills the space. The work ends with a single climactic 'night' scene, replacing all the nights removed from the six month time-lapse sequence

Accumulator was commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory, Cork

Presented as a live video event at the National Sculpture Factory, Thursday 4, Friday 5, Saturday 6 December 2003

http://www.nationalsculpturefactory.com