Daniel Harris

Stratford Circus public screen

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In brief

Client

Stratford Circus performing arts & media centre

Role

Interactive video artist

Design process

Site visits, design proposal, reviews, development, installation

Year

2006

The detail

In January 2006 I was asked by Yeast Culture to provide an animated intervention for Stratford Circus, as part of the Arts Centres re-launch and re-brand.

Over the course of 6 months, the commission developed into an interactive architectural intervention - one that happened to use the large outdoor screen which was integrated into a public square-facing facade of the venue.

The project uses the imagery input of the inhabitants
of Stratford Circus, London, to populate a kaleidoscope, rendered onto the outdoor screen. Participants are able to Bluetooth their photographs to the system, which adds a masked version of the photograph to the animated kaleidoscope image.

To assist with this process, a wall inside the building contains a painting of the mask - an outline of a breakdancing position. Crosshairs above the outline help participants to line up the images of their friends in the viewfinder, guaranteeing them a place within the kaleidoscope.