The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice)

The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), ambient responsive digital panorama from the Monument of the Great Fire of London, City of London: 2007-2008.

In collaboration with Julian Harrap Architects, The City of London Surveyors and Sandbox, UCLan.

• http://www.themonumentview.net/
• The Monument Project website

Following on from “Interwoven Motion”, a NESTA funded project to develop a prototype self-powered outdoor video installation in Grizedale Forest in 2004, Chris Meigh-Andrews has been commissioned to produce an ambient responsive outdoor installation on the Monument in the City of London by Julian Harrap Architects. Chris is developing this new work in collaboration with Sandbox, with funding from the City of London Corporation.

The installation will provide a live stream of images 24 hours a day for three years with the potential be shown either sequentially or in combination and accessed on a dedicated web site and as a “live” image via a video display at the base of the Monument.

A computer controlled digital camera will provide a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of the Monument. Changes to the image display will be facilitated by a dedicated computer system with interfaces and software to modify the image in response to changes in the ambient conditions of the surrounding environment such as wind velocity and direction and average temperature.

The Monument Project - Panoramic camera control and ambient sensors.

Schematic version 2, Chris Meigh-Andrews, Aug 2007

Weatherproof camera and lens housing with weather station for Monument installation built by Greenaway Marine, Swindon.