That Child of Fleeting Time, Kyungmi Shin, 2017
SERVICES PROVIDED: Design coordination, Materials research, Budget management, Engineering coordination and oversight, Fabricator bid process, Fabrication oversight, Lighting design development, Shipping, Installation services, Scheduling, Project close-out.
For the Netflix headquarters building on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, we worked with artist Kyungmi Shin to create That Child of Fleeting Time a video-based sculpture that commemorates the site’s historic landmark location as Warner Brothers’ original LA Location. The stainless steel sculpture gives the appearance of four curved film strips with media screens on the front skin that play thousands of clips lasting 6 seconds in duration each, shuffled randomly, resulting in a work of art that is always in motion and is never the same. These clips were created from early technology test films including animation of the sound technology used for the Jazz Singer, the first talkie created at the site, color tests done by Thomas Edison and Kodak, and movement studies by Muybridge, among others. Analog noises were added by distorting the original footage to create colorful abstract sequences that refer to the digital future while looking back at the history of the film industry's technological evolution. The video screen consists of 50,000 LED bulbs and the final work measures 30’ x 6’ x 15’.
Check out the videos embedded below to experience That Child of Fleeting Time.
Select text and images courtesy of Shin Gray Studio. Digital modeling and presentation graphics by Mowry Studio.
