As part of the Kinetica Art Fair 2010, Memory is required to fill in a risk assessment form.  This entails listing out all the possibly tragic events that can occur, how many people could potentially die, and a design of the installation as seen from top-down and the side.  Having only seen pictures of the space before, deciding on the design was a bit tricky (let alone figuring out how many people would die).  The piece itself is not very modular and has to make use of the space (take a look at what I mean).  It is basically a web that latches onto whatever it can find in the space.  As such, we really needed a nice model of the space in order to model the installation.

I went through an attempt of photoshopping the few pictures with some ridiculous looking lines.  It didn’t seem to capture the space.  Next attempt was with Illustrator.  Hmm.  Nope not much further.  Maybe just draw the thing?  Nope.  I couldn’t seem to get the scale right or even think about how to lay out the design in a space I wasn’t really sure about.  I just couldn’t visualize the … Continue reading...