The will be two pieces of work on show, presenting two locations on the Dorset coast. These two perspectives of the Jurassic Coast are the culmination of over two years of development. Shown as two projections, the audience experience the coast in flight in one piece and as a boat trip in the other.

Exhibition is open from 10 to 8pm daily.

For more details see the press release. Press Release 29th Jan 2010

In the exhibition will be a preview of the developing project, Light Years: Jurassic Coast. Anthony Head said, “We’re keen to expose our developing work to this critical audience. It’s a chance for us to test out new ideas and get feedback”.

The photo, shows the some of the artists involved the in EVA exhibition, including Anthony Head and Jeremy Gardiner.

Presented by the Project Room for New Media at the Chelsea Art Museum

Light Years Projects features in the exhibition called Imaginalis. This collaborative exhibition by European artists brings together interactive installations alongside multi-media, painting and print work firmly routed in the rich tradition of modern landscape artists, the exhibition is the culmination of a close collaborative partnership between the four artists.

The Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO world heritage site in Dorset, England, is the inspiration for evocative paintings and prints that blur the line between representation and abstraction. Viewing the coast from the land, sea and air layers of color convey sensations, changes in the weather and seasons. The working method behind the pictures, scouring, building accretions of paint, collaging, and sanding down, echo the history of the ninety miles of ancient coastal landscape we see today. Like the geological spectrum of the coast, these images are stratified, creating distinct bands of paint and color in complex layers built up over eons.

Jurassic Light Years further explores the coastline in the context of a dynamic and time-based virtual environment. The installation uses hybrid techniques that combine painting, drawing, satellite data and ambient sound with immersive virtual reality through computer programming. This work features natural systems, such as changing weather, sea and geological erosion, over time. The dynamic qualities of this interactive installation best convey the succession of changing climates and landforms during its 250 million year old history.

By contrast Oculus is an installation that focuses on the human desire to measure and quantify the passing of time to make sense of the eras of change. Taking its form from the rose windows of European medieval cathedrals the jewel colors of the stained glass are projected to create an ethereal animated installation. Oculus subtly captures movement over time, its circular form echoes that of many ancient calendars and clocks. Embedded in the roundels of the window are the signs of the Zodiac, the plan of Stonehenge, the Nebra star-disc, the Aztec calendar, Copernicus’s view of the solar system, and at the centre, the great clock at Hampton Court, the royal palace of King Henry the Eighth. The piece connects the beliefs, discoveries and world-view of the cultures that sought to capture time and place and frame it.

In accordance with Dorset County Museum’s mission to foster critical thinking about today’s world through art, The Mapping the Coast exhibition explores multiple perspectives across time and place challenging the audience to contemplate issues of representation of time and our place in the universe.

The picture shows Jeremy Gardiner describing the work, alongside the Executive Director of the Dorset County Musuem, Jon Murden.

1996

Isle of Purbeck CD ROM

2001

Work begins on Purbeck Light Years

2002

Development of custom 3D engine.

Purbeck Light Years, Deluxe Gallery, London, UK

2003

Purbeck Light Years wins Peterborough Art Prize

Purbeck Light Years, Lighthouse, Poole Art Centre

Purbeck Light Years featured in ‘The Art of Computer Animation and 3D Effects’, John Wiley and Sons

2004

Purbeck Light Years, New Media Festival, Beijing.

2006

Purbeck Light Years, Black Swan Arts, Frome, UK

Purbeck Light Years,  TwoNotTen, Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton, UK (used web-cam control)

Purbeck Light Years featured in book ‘Art of the Digital Age’, Thames and Hudson, July 2006

2007

Work begins on new collaborative project.

2008

Purbeck Light Years, Federal Plaza, Melbourne, Australia

Jurassic project develops new techniques for 3D with a customised 3D engine.

2009

Jurassic Light Years, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

Light Years: Jurassic Coast I, Dorset County Museum

Light Years: Jurassic Coast 2, School of Art & Design Gallery, Bath Spa University, Bath