Video installation as a creative means of representing temporality in visual data

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the use of video installation as a creative means of engaging audiences in visual research. A detailed image-based overview of the project, 1247 Days on Whymark Avenue, is also presented. This interactive video installation offered viewers a level of phenomenological immersion in the compressed temporality and asynchronous dialogue captured by this visual research project. This film is part of a larger research project on the longitudinal photo-documentation of urban life (Hansen & Flynn 2015a). The project uses repeat photography to study street art and graffiti as visual dialogue.

KEYWORDS:

• graffiti
• longitudinal photo-documentation
• repeat photography
• street art
• urban creativity
• video installation
• visual methods

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Susan Hansen

Susan Hansen coordinates the Visual Methods Group and is chair of the Forensic Psychology Research Group at Middlesex University, London. She has a background in social psychology, communication studies, and art history. Her research explores communities’ material engagements with, and affective responses to, urban environments; the analysis of graffiti as a form of visual dialogue; and the promise of an archaeological approach to understanding street art and graffiti through the longitudinal photo documentation (or repeat photography) of single sites.