Project:Textus
Client: ARUP/MEPC
Date: 2007

Site specific projected installation a collaboration with Arup engineers and artist Peter Coates and sited at the Lifting Tower, Wellington Place, Leeds.

Textus was installed for a period of two weeks in October 2007 and commemorated the 800th anniversary of the signing of Leeds’ Charter.

Seen was asked to take the existing work, a cipher created by Coates and produce a transformative installation in the form of a projected installation. The artwork used the text of the charter as a material, multiplying it 800 times to create a dense field of constantly shifting imagery. An animation routine was created to produce an unlimited series of viewpoints which slowly ebbed and flowed mimicing the city which the installation represented.

Lumen Arts provided technical support for the projection system, which consisted of two Sanyo XP-57s fitted with custom lenses.

Arup and MEPC provided logistical and technical support to bring the artwork to fruition which included the cladding of the Lifting Tower, a 54 ft disused industrial relic, and the monitoring of the projection housing which was automated to project each evening for a fortnight.

Arups documentation of the Installation

MEPC documentation

Lumen Arts