Barbara Mary Keating
ABSTRACT
Rhumb Lines is a playful, immersive, cinematic, interactive video installation that explores how we think we know where we are in time, space, and history. It invites viewers to navigate a mesmerizing series of interlinked videos using location data and scanning the horizon to seek out hidden co-ordinates and signs of the River Tyne's magnetic attraction for artists over the centuries, translated into beautiful Red One super-wide-screen images. Viewers scroll a map generated from sonar-scan data, with the GPS tracks overlaid to trigger corresponding videos. They scrub through the cinematic widescreen videos seeking journey intersections, and the frames of video are graded to look like archive paintings. Device control creates an apparent suspension of "real" time that could be staged on any waterway in the world with sonar-scan survey data.
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