s p a c e t i m e a n a l y s i s | c h r o n o g r a m

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p o p l a r i n t e r c h a n g e 2 4 0 0 h r s

Project 1.1 | Space Time Analysis

Synopsis:

This animation is a space time analysis, recording movement transitions of space through time.

The given site is the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). This is made of four main lines running through Poplar interchange. This station is central to the four intersecting lines, which is the reason for placing my site survey in this location.

Over the selected 2400 Hours, the DLR runs for approximately 17 Hrs (beginning at 06:50 and finishing at 23:47), running through four platforms of the Poplar interchange. A train will pass each platform exactly 100 times during this 2400 hour period, calculating 400 journeys in total.

From the origin to the final destination of each sectional line, this is my interpreted record of the site through a single intersection.

A single hour at 1200 Hrs was used to recorded the movement of the DLR.

This sequence was taken and subsequently manipulated to represent the 100 journeys travelling through each platform, totalling 400 separate journeys across the 2400 Hr period. This single hour has been condensed to record the space time analysis, plotting the movement transitions of space through time, into a 60 second animated clip.

The genuine carriages representing realtime, remain in sequence and exactly as they appeared through the hour record. The additional carriages used to represent the 2400 Hr period are evidently apparent...

p r o j e c t 1 . 1

p h a s e  1  : s p a c e  -  t i m e  a n a l y s i s

 

 

s i t e  :  d o c k l a n d s  l i g h t  r a i l w a y

 

 

….just as we perceive things where they are present, in space, we remember where they have passed in time…
 
Gilles Deleuze, The Time Image

 
The fact is that space ‘in itself’ is ungraspable, unthinkable, unknowable. Time ‘in itself’, absolute time is no less unknowable. But that is the whole point: time is known and actualized in space, becoming a social reality by virtue of a spatial practice. Similarly space is known only in and through time.

Henry Lefebvre, The Production Of Space

 
A space exists when one takes into consideration vectors of direction, velocities, and time variables. Thus space is composed of intersections of mobile elements. It is in a sense actuated by the ensemble of movements deployed within it.

Michel De Certeau, The Practice Of Everyday Life

b r i e f

 

You are required to visit the site and record your visit.

You are required to record as much of the site as you can, by whatever means you feel is appropriate.

You may wish to visit parts of the site a number of times to record them under a number of different conditions.

You are required to make a space‐time analysis of your visit.

Your analysis needs to identify your interests both thematically and representationally.

You are to present your initial findings on Wednesday 10th October

Your findings should be presented in such a way that they are able to go straing onto your blogs and into your portfolio...

c h r o n o g r a m

 

The above drawing is my first attempt at mapping a chronogram for the Chemical Brothers Star Guitar Video. Has anyone ever tried to make a literal mapping of something that actually doesn't exist in reality? At first glimpse, and many viewings thereafter, I did not fully comprehend the techniques involved to construct this master piece! It took hours of mapping the towns and lanscapes of the French countryside to learn that most of the footage, stills and architectural objects within the piece had been fabricated, repeated and manipulated. I found merely 3 stills of the 4 minute piece that were a true representation of the train journey between Nimes and Valence, Pierrelatte's Station being one of them!

 

The drawing shows a sequence of built objects found in the video, mapped out on Graph Paper. Each sequence is repeated 4 times to replicate the 4 minute duration. The audio track is made up of 126 beats per minute, and 504 beats for the total duration, The graph layout grid denoting this scale.

 

The SLR wireframe shown in the glass reflection shows that the camera position is static, and does not move or rotate throughout the entire piece. This is also replicated on 4 occasions, capturing 4 stills of the composition that fall within the landscape...or not as the case may be!

 

The visual audio wave travels through the lens of the SLR's, fading and sharpening as the stills appear alongside the railway route.