Monday
Sep192011
Rachael Cloughton//Solar Pavilion: A Virtual Biennale
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 3:55PM
Today's featured artist is Rachael Cloughton with her work 'A Virtual Biennale'.
Welcome to the Solar Pavilion Online
The Solar Pavilion, by leading Scottish artist Karen Forbes, has been commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival 2011. The artwork is situated within Edinburgh's St Andrew Square and will be open to the public from the 4th August.
The Solar Pavilion draws time in light, creating a parallel line to the Melville Monument's circling shadow. It is an architectural twinned system, moving continuously through the horizontal and vertical axii, driven by the sun. This unique and graceful structure is not only a stunning example of public art, but acts as a dynamic space to showcase the latest in creativity and innovation in Scottish and international art for the Edinburgh Festival. It is a shimmering chamber in which to lie back and really see the Melville Monument and the moving sky above, to orientate yourself in the centre of Edinburgh, absorbed between radiating curves of glass, an optical viewing point to re-see the city from. For more information, see the About page.
In addition, 24 artists have been commissioned to create a response to issues of site and context within their work with reference to the Solar Pavilion and its location in a project entitled 'Solar'. Their responses will be available to view on this site and will be published throughout August.
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Monday, September 19, 2011 at 3:55PM Friday
Sep162011
Rosamund Garrett//Solar: An Experience of the Sound of WiFi in St Andrew Square
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 2:00PM Using Ekahau HeatMapper, a WiFi coverage site survey tool, our current location (Solar Pavilion, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh) has been surveyed for WiFi access points. Each access point has a name, which it calls once per second. Due to the large number of WiFi access points within our communities this effectively means that we are perpetually walking through a crowd of voices that we cannot hear or see, but are necessary for the functioning of modern day society. You are about to experience the unheard sound of WiFi in St Andrew Square, using the voices of visitors to the Solar Pavilion.
Sound edited by Mark Anderson, Audio Engineer.
© Rosamund Garrett
This piece has been created in surround sound. The stereo version is for web only.
Today's featured artist is Rosamund Garrett with her site specific audio installation 'An Experience of WiFi in St Andrew Square'.
Thursday
Sep152011
Leah Lovett//Solar: 3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 1:46PM 
3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W uses Panoramio, online software which enables anyone to geotag photographs that may or may not subsequently appear on Google Earth and Maps. In an attempt to supplement the partially street-bound views offered by Google, I have uploaded ink drawings I have made of Fordlândia for potential use within Google’s maps. A place that I have attempted to reach but have never been to, Fordlândia is a failed town in the Amazon, now uninhabited, and built by Henry Ford in the 1920s to house workers harvesting the site’s indigenous rubber trees. What’s left of the place can’t even be seen via Google, with the image fragmenting into oversized pixels when you try to zoom. In intimating and digitally grounding representations of space as imagined, 3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W at once extends and unhinges the conditions of its own display.
Today's featured artist is Leah Lovett with her work entitled '3°40'36.97"S 55°24'35.80"W'.
Wednesday
Sep142011
Jessica Argo//Solar: Mirage
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:00PM Today's featured artist is Jessica Argo with her film 'Mirage'.
Tuesday
Sep132011
Catriona Gourlay//Solar: From Luskentyre
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 1:00PM Today's featured artist is Catriona Gourlay with her work entitled 'From Luskentyre'.
Monday
Sep122011
Robert Powell//Solar: The Antikythera of the North
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 2:38PM
Today's featured artist is Robert Powell with his film 'The Antikythera of the North'.
Sunday
Sep112011
Helen Johnson//Solar: The Woodland Labyrinth
Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 2:14PM 'The Woodland Labyrinth and Greenlaw, Scotland'
The Woodland Labyrinth was created as a visual art piece for Solar. Artist Helen Johnson collaborated with net-maker/artist Fiona Drewery to create the labyrinth in a space of woodland situated in Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders. The Woodland Labyrinth has been gifted to the community and is available to visit.
Today's featured artist is Helen Johnson with her work 'The Woodland Labyrinth'.
Saturday
Sep102011
Momiji Matsuura//Solar: Assistance Needed
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 1:31PM
Today's featured artist is Momiji Matsuura with her audio piece 'Assistance Needed'.