A cool photographic project hits London this July - and you can get involved.
It doesn't matter what excites you more, taking part in an exciting public art installation or having the joy of walking round Stratford tube station pointing at the fence and shouting, “That's me!”
Well whatever it is about it that takes your fancy, this Saturday 17th July, Adam Magyar in association with Rhubarb-Rhubarb, will be looking to photograph a minimum of 300 local Newham residents as well as Olympic hopefuls and creatives from the art industries. Working with Newham Council, the outdoor installation will then be enlarged and transferred on to the blue fence around Stratford tube station.
Magyar will be using Olympic finish line technology to capture a scene one pixel at a time to evoke movement. The resulting image looks set to transform the mundane claustrophobic bustle of a London walk into a dynamic conveyor belt inhabited with robotic limbed humans.
Magyar's preoccupation with time is apparent in all his work, as is his aim to create a “non-existent reality” which sees those who we may pass everyday as captured in time rather than in space, moving through an infinite cityscape backdrop. Impressively the artist has built his own software to create these images. Those in his photographs are at once members of a whole atmosphere interacting with each other and yet also individually separated.
The work will be unveiled as part of the East London Photomonth in October 2010 and will remain there until July 2011 to celebrate the borough's hosting of the Olympics in 2012. As the Mayor of Newham puts it, “This is part of our vision for the existing town centre to become the cultural heart of Stratford.”
You can literally become part of the developments. So sprint down there for your opportunity to get involved. London in the fast lane.
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Photo credit: Adam Magyar, Urban Flow # 1075, London, Digital Silver Gelatin Print, detail.
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