Winner of Watershed’s 2014 Playable City Award, Shadowing by Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier gave memory to Bristol's city lights, enabling them to record and play back the shadows of those who passed underneath.
Over six weeks in Autumn 2014, Bristol residents and visitors hunted out the clandestine locations of eight augmented street lights, and were playing, dancing and shaping their shadows in some of the unexpected and lesser-travelled streets and pathways of Bristol.
As the sun set over the city, the Shadowing streetlights would start to capture the movements of pedestrians passing beneath and echo them back as shadows to the next passerby, leaving a glimpse of those who walked the same path moments before. If a visitor stepped out of the light to watch for a while, the lamp would begin to ‘dream’, recalling a procession of shadows from earlier visitors.
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