Client
For their final season in its current guise, Printworks London invited us to create a series of interventions to celebrate the space and announce their final programme.
The first of these was to create a content generation engine, in the form of a physical light printer, that was able to produce imagery for long exposure photography, and film.
The light printer generated imagery, but also illuminated the environment and figures in space, capturing floating compositions, movement and echoes.
The light printer generated imagery, but also illuminated the environment and figures in space, capturing floating compositions, movement and echoes.
We've been interested in persistence of vision, time slicing and esoteric light exposure effects for a while. This installation exposes thin slices of light in precise repeated motions, the sum of which create the full image.
The printer was designed to be photographed and filmed in a variety of ways, playing with the mechanical process of image making.
The printer was designed to be photographed and filmed in a variety of ways, playing with the mechanical process of image making.
The process of creating imagery this way speaks to the building's history of mechanised image making as a former printworks, and the impermanence of experience and memory.