Phil Coy’s closed circuit (2019) is an 18-channel video installation. The work utilised data from Brunel University’s five-hundred + CCTV cameras to record movements and patterns in pedestrian movement on campus.

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Site office [closed circuit mediation facility] (2019)  Portacabin with access ramp installed adjacent to Brunel Lecture Centre

Site office [closed circuit mediation facility] (2019) 18-channel video installation, Unicol stands, Portacabin with access ramp, rug, hi-vis jackets, mediation cushions

Site office [closed circuit mediation facility] (2019) 18-channel video installation, Unicol stands, Portacabin with access ramp

Site office [closed circuit mediation facility] (2019)  Portacabin with access ramp installed adjacent to Brunel Lecture Centre

Site office [closed circuit mediation facility] (2019)  Portacabin with access ramp installed adjacent to Brunel Lecture Centre

Site office, performance for CCTV April 2019

Diagram of site cabin for site office installation, Sep – Dec 2019

site office installation

Closed circuit was positioned in an unpresuming location to the rear of Richard Sheppard’s iconic Brutalist Lecture Centre. The 18-channel video installation was housed within a newly introduced, security portacabin. The work incorporated data from five-hundred CCTV collected during a campus-wide intervention – Fallen Eight. Viewers are invited to use the choreographed patterns in pedestrian movement as an aid for meditation. The work was developed with Brunel Security and performed with thirty volunteers from staff, students and local residents.

The work was installed from October 04 – 2019 until 16 December 2019 adjacent to the rear entrance of Brunels iconic Lecture Centre.

The work used data collected during a campus wide performance Fallen eight. The work was developed and performed with thirty volunteers drawn from Brunels staff, students and interested local residents.

Together they followed a simple rule based analogue walk, to create a pattern that is only seen from above by Brunels onsite CCTV monitoring system. Coy has edited the captured CCTV into a collage pedestrian movement combing the aesethetics of digital swarm and crowd modelling with contemporary surveillance technologies and architectures.

 

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