CARBIDE WILLSON RUINS INSTALLAION
Ottawa, Canada
AA Visiting School
Installation, 2013
with Sebastian Wooff
AA Visiting School
Installation, 2013
with Sebastian Wooff
The post-industrial ruins of Thomas ‘Carbide’ Willson in Gatineau Park is in a state of natural entropy. Using 3D laser scanning point cloud data of the Carbide Willson ruins we speculated the evolution of the site from its natural, industrial, post-industrial, and future state. The installation consisted of two videos capturing the same camera path, but showing disparate conditions. The section runs through the path of the river and waterfall, a physical condition that can only be partially captured with the 3D laser scanner. One video is a tranquil slow moving representation of this section, and the other shows a violent infestation of constructed digital forms of an imagined future. All of the work: learning to to use the 3D laser scanner, learning multiple softwares, and contracting the video installations took place over ten days.
Carbide Willson Ruins
