The Process:
For several weeks we track the transmissions - tracing the lighters, tracing
the fire, collecting the data; echo-soundings from within the urban habitat.
Relaying times and locations to their observers, the lighters build an information
model giving a sense of position and distribution - a presence in physical space.
We toggle between information model and urban life.
Logging data, tallying positions, extracting telling trends of behaviour.
Reacting to the situations our roles as observers lead us into and pointing
cameras in our specimens’ common grounds. Recording the soundscapes of
places regularly passed. Filtering out regularities in the objects' movements.
Bringing the electronic impression and physical location within speaking distance.
Keeping an eye out.
Marking encounters with inhabitants, handing out sparklers - capturing the moment
for posterity. Recapturing the fire. Discovering traces left in an urban habitat
we leave traces of our own.