Abstract
This practice research investigates the 360 degree exhibition/performance environment, comparing the audiovisual experience of two contrasting places through presentation as a 5-screen HD panoramic film projection with ambisonic audio design.
The research explores experience of circular cinematic space through depiction of two locations: the first place is the environment of Burrator Arboretum, Dartmoor, where honeybees and bumblebees follow meandering flightpaths as they forage individually for nectar; the second place is the area in and around the hive in a garden in the South Hams of Devon, an intensely focused space occupied by thousands of honeybees.
Imaging techniques include 360 video, timelapse, microscopic animation and manipulation of electron microscopy image sequences. The sound design is created from field recordings at the locations.
Commissioned by Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries (ICCI), University of Plymouth, and funded as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in the South West.
EXHIBITION
A screening of Nectar opened the ICCI 360 Festival, 'Count Me In', held in The Piazza, Plymouth city centre, on 13 September 2010; and was shown daily during the festival, which concluded with a gala evening on 18 September 2010.
Nectar was screened at Parker and Moore's Welcome to the Treasuredome, the 2-day artists’ moving image event, commissioned by ICCI, which was presented in the ICCI 360 Arena on Weymouth seafront for Maritime Mix – London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea (10 and 11 August 2012), attracting an audience of several thousand people.
The film was screened as part of the Time around Space 360 conference, held at University of Plymouth (21 June 2013), in the ICCI 360 Rotunda.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Peter Bond and Martin Woolner.
Thanks also to Bill Finnemore, Plymouth Beekeepers Association; Dr Roy Moate, Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre; Sarah Hemingway and David Hotchkiss, Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries (ICCI); James O’Dowd, University College Plymouth, Marjon.
The research explores experience of circular cinematic space through depiction of two locations: the first place is the environment of Burrator Arboretum, Dartmoor, where honeybees and bumblebees follow meandering flightpaths as they forage individually for nectar; the second place is the area in and around the hive in a garden in the South Hams of Devon, an intensely focused space occupied by thousands of honeybees.
Imaging techniques include 360 video, timelapse, microscopic animation and manipulation of electron microscopy image sequences. The sound design is created from field recordings at the locations.
Commissioned by Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries (ICCI), University of Plymouth, and funded as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme in the South West.
EXHIBITION
A screening of Nectar opened the ICCI 360 Festival, 'Count Me In', held in The Piazza, Plymouth city centre, on 13 September 2010; and was shown daily during the festival, which concluded with a gala evening on 18 September 2010.
Nectar was screened at Parker and Moore's Welcome to the Treasuredome, the 2-day artists’ moving image event, commissioned by ICCI, which was presented in the ICCI 360 Arena on Weymouth seafront for Maritime Mix – London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea (10 and 11 August 2012), attracting an audience of several thousand people.
The film was screened as part of the Time around Space 360 conference, held at University of Plymouth (21 June 2013), in the ICCI 360 Rotunda.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Peter Bond and Martin Woolner.
Thanks also to Bill Finnemore, Plymouth Beekeepers Association; Dr Roy Moate, Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre; Sarah Hemingway and David Hotchkiss, Innovation for the Creative and Cultural Industries (ICCI); James O’Dowd, University College Plymouth, Marjon.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Media of output | Film |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Sept 2010 |
Keywords
- 360 cinema
- 360 film
- bees
- expanded cinema
- honeybees
- sense of place