L E G M O U N T A I N

The Hague

Praise James Turrell

Excerpt from the animation Marcell Jankovics made in 1982.

Peter Campus. At the BFI this month

www.susan-collins.net/seascape

“Seascape features a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes created using imagery captured in real time by webcams installed at five key vantage points along the south coast between Margate and Portsmouth. The cameras have been positioned at various seafront locations in Margate, Folkstone, Bexhill, Pagham, and Stokes Bay. For more information visit locations.

Sited at each location for up to a year and remaining online until summer 2009, these webcams transmitted and archived the seascape images in real time. Each image has been constructed a pixel at a time, from top to bottom and left to right of the image, in horizontal bands continuously. A whole image is made up of individual pixels collected over a six and a half hour period, approximately the time it takes for the tide to come in or out. The horizon is framed in each location, forming a fragment of the continuous panorama of the South East coast, where sea and sky combine with stray pixels revealing other presences such as passing ships, yachts, people, birds and windsurfers.

Seascape reveals the endless fluctuations in light and movement, time and tide as well as the shifting weather conditions that are a characteristic feature of the English coastline and whose ever-changing nature has attracted painters for generations.Sited at each location for up to a year and remaining online until summer 2009, these webcams transmitted and archived the seascape images in real time. Each image has been constructed a pixel at a time, from top to bottom and left to right of the image, in horizontal bands continuously. A whole image is made up of individual pixels collected over a six and a half hour period, approximately the time it takes for the tide to come in or out. The horizon is framed in each location, forming a fragment of the continuous panorama of the South East coast, where sea and sky combine with stray pixels revealing other presences such as passing ships, yachts, people, birds and windsurfers.”