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all images copyright Fiona Bowie 2009
Project background
December 2004
Fiona Bowie has submitted a letter of intention to the 1 Kingsway public art competition.
after an initial round of shortlisting, Fiona has invited Rebecca Belmore and engineering scientist Sidney Fels to join her in the bid.
Jan 2005 Fiona Bowie arranges meeting with Sidney Fels and Rebecca Belmore to discuss
initial thoughts and possibilities.Fiona presents letter of interest outlining ideas
about tableaus of evolving images and ideas of fragile images/disappearing images/local landscapes.
Shadow images are condsidered and ideas about daily flow of day: crow migration, weather, light.
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May 2005
Due to commitments of Rebecca Belmore making her unable to contribute to the final submission, Fiona Bowie and Sidney Fels produce a detail submission to the jury, Fiona outlining the conceptual and visual content and Sidney detailing technical considerations related to realizing aspects central to daily flow, weather, time of day etc. and also detailed aspects necessary to realize it through software.
Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Vancouver Web Site Announcement.
Competition Results Announced
Mount Pleasant Civic Centre 1 Kingsway
"Artist Fiona Bowie with Rebecca Belmore and Sidney Fels were recently awarded a public art commission for an electronic media project to be integrated into the architecture of the Mount Pleasant Civic Centre at 1 Kingsway. Three local artist teams were short-listed by a Selection Panel to develop proposals for the commission. The selected Bowie, Belmore, Fels team will bring a high level of collective artistic and technical expertise to realizing their project entitled, Flow."
"Flow will conflate past and present through a dynamic blending of projected imagery onto shifting architectural surfaces and landscapes. The flow of cyclical, social and natural rhythms will be represented in an ever-changing visual tableau."
"The Mount Pleasant Civic Centre is scheduled for completion in June of 2007. The Centre will house the Mount Pleasant Branch Library,Mount Pleasant Community Centre, day-care facility, market rental housing, and a café. "
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After a initial meeting before submission, and after the detailed subission, Fiona ensued production. After time away in other productions, Rebecca Belmore withdrew due to mounting commitments such as her Venice Biennale invitation
NOVEMBER 2005
Fiona Bowie begins shooting portraits against blue screen and landscapes in and around the Mount Pleasant area.
archival images researched and collected.
2006
Fiona continues shooting, developing background concepts; mis-en-scene compositions (scenes, portrait, photo-friending pairings) and editing.
Fiona and Alex begin post production while continuing to shoot, laying out 100's of portraits after initial cull to consider pairings and friending.
Alex's primary tasks involve blue screen extraction and tagging of images for proprietary code.
Fiona meets with Sidney Fels, Morgan Hibbert and Alex Low to discuss coding to concepts.
Shadow Cam built by Sidney Fels in ECE Lab.
Sidney and Morgan begin work on switch glass and software integration.
Fiona in discussion with The Residents, The New Pornographers, Spores and others about including lyrical content in some of the landscapes.
2007
Fiona continues shooting, developing mis-en-scenes etc.
Building opening delayed.
Fiona, Sidney and Morgan Flow progression meeting.
Sidney and Morgan work on switch glass and software integration
First runs of code in Beta.
2008
Fiona continues shooting, post continues.
Alex, Morgan and Fiona work on refinement of imagery coding, flow, content and probabilities and projector tests
Building opening delayed.
2009
Fiona continues shooting, post continues with Alex and Morgan.
Building opening delayed.
second runs of code in Beta 2, Morgan and Fiona work on refinement of imagery flow/ content / probabilities.
Online tests of imagery to code.
The Opening of in-situ installation at 1 Kingsway and the website component Took place on December 10th, 2009. 7pm.
November 2023
Flow is deaccessioned due to projector failure and the exorbitant cost of replacing them with new ones. the work was
Fiona, Sidney and Morgan thanks the hundreds of people who agreed to be photographed for Flow: neighbours that answered open calls and those who accepted personal invitations - the artists, curators and cultural workers in the area.
We thank the hundreds of people who volunteered to be photographed for Flow: neighbours that answered open calls and those who accepted personal invitations - the artists, curators and cultural workers in the area.
At the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, thanks and gratitude for the incredible support from Marcia Belluce, Eric Fredericksen, Scott Massey, Colin Griffiths, Barbara Cole, Karen Henry, Brian Newson, Alix Sales, Melanie Marchand, and the Flow
December 2023
Flow is in progress for live stream online. It will appear as the opening page of flowvancouver.com.
This change will result in viewers being able to see the work fully evolve at anytime 24/7. People will be able to appreciate the slowness of the transitions from one image to another in the comfort of their own time/home.
Over it's tenure, due to the nature of the design, Flow has not yet created an identical image mis-en-scene.)
Again, thank you all so much for this opportunity and the great care you extended during its on-site 14 year tenure at Mount Pleasant Community Center at 1 Kingsway.
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