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Fraser River Discovery Centre, New Westminster, BC.
Descriptions of the artworks in the exhibition:
Sounding Post: Riverscape Routes (Echoes of the River)
Photograph on vinyl, sound, radio handsets
This interactive sculpture evokes many aspects of the river. It is in the form of a post not unlike a pylon that is also a marker that traces its flow and activity on the adjacent shores. It consists of sounds and images recorded and collected along the river from places of commerce that have a significant impact on the economic sustainability of the city of New Westminster as a dynamic commercial and social hub that is framed by the beauty and utility of the Fraser as it joins the coast and inland cultures and economies.
Sounds and images were recorded at visits to the Surrey Docks facility, Fraser River Piledriving and with the generous support of Seaspan, during a journey along the river in a Seaspan tugboat. Together, these sounds and images provide a portrait of place- physical, social and commercial. This sculpture, placed near the large picture windows of the exhibition space, brings those outdoor sounds and sights that occur in the proximity of the Fraser River Discovery Centre for viewer’s to experience as they interact with the artwork.
Disrupting Currents: Trading Routes
Interactive projection
This interactive artwork combines languages of visual art, interactive new media, science and poetry to present the Fraser River as an important route of transportation of people and goods. Its presence is physical and practical as well as affective as it inspires poetry and other expressive thoughts, acts and emotions. In this artwork, viewers are mirrored in the projection as they are integral to the changes that can be made by their movements and choices suggesting that they can impact the life and sustainability for the river that flows through their community.
The artwork consists of photographic images of the activity in and around the river in the vicinity of New Westminister. It also marks the height of the river by way of a constant feed of real-time numerical data derived from the Coast Guard sensor apparatus situated in the hut at the river’s edge adjacent to the Discovery Centre. The visual translation of the data, the photographic images and the fragments of text selected from poetry about experiences on the river are disrupted by the visitor’s presence and form new configurations, associations and meanings. These dynamic elements are intended to highlight the importance of the river as central to the sense of “place” in New Westminster’s history and present.
Riverscape Routes (Echoes of the River): Ruth Beer and Miles Thorogood
Fraser River Discovery Centre, New Westminster, BC.
Descriptions of the artworks in the exhibition:
Sounding Post: Riverscape Routes (Echoes of the River)
Photograph on vinyl, sound, radio handsets
This interactive sculpture evokes many aspects of the river. It is in the form of a post not unlike a pylon that is also a marker that traces its flow and activity on the adjacent shores. It consists of sounds and images recorded and collected along the river from places of commerce that have a significant impact on the economic sustainability of the city of New Westminster as a dynamic commercial and social hub that is framed by the beauty and utility of the Fraser as it joins the coast and inland cultures and economies.
Sounds and images were recorded at visits to the Surrey Docks facility, Fraser River Piledriving and with the generous support of Seaspan, during a journey along the river in a Seaspan tugboat. Together, these sounds and images provide a portrait of place- physical, social and commercial. This sculpture, placed near the large picture windows of the exhibition space, brings those outdoor sounds and sights that occur in the proximity of the Fraser River Discovery Centre for viewer’s to experience as they interact with the artwork.
Disrupting Currents: Trading Routes
Interactive projection
This interactive artwork combines languages of visual art, interactive new media, science and poetry to present the Fraser River as an important route of transportation of people and goods. Its presence is physical and practical as well as affective as it inspires poetry and other expressive thoughts, acts and emotions. In this artwork, viewers are mirrored in the projection as they are integral to the changes that can be made by their movements and choices suggesting that they can impact the life and sustainability for the river that flows through their community.
The artwork consists of photographic images of the activity in and around the river in the vicinity of New Westminister. It also marks the height of the river by way of a constant feed of real-time numerical data derived from the Coast Guard sensor apparatus situated in the hut at the river’s edge adjacent to the Discovery Centre. The visual translation of the data, the photographic images and the fragments of text selected from poetry about experiences on the river are disrupted by the visitor’s presence and form new configurations, associations and meanings. These dynamic elements are intended to highlight the importance of the river as central to the sense of “place” in New Westminster’s history and present.