24 hours of London life
LDN24 is a public art installation for the Museum of London. It draws filmic impressions and the facts and figures of London life into a picture of 24 hours in the life of the city.
As a permanent installation in the newly renovated Galleries of Modern London, LDN24 brings the contemporary city into the Museum.
A creative collaboration of The Light Surgeons (Production) and FIELD (Data Visualisation).
Facts and Figures
Statistics and statements from the web and a huge database are printed along the LED screen by the second hand of a 24 hours clock. Weather, traffic and news updates, the Thames’ tides, Tube updates and recent fire incidents are pulled live from numerous RSS feeds, Twitter and news portals.
A custom software composes statistics, the film and a generative soundtrack into an immersive audiovisual narrative. Each iteration reveals new connections between film and data, and puts the figures into context with everyday live.
The new Galleries of Modern London were opened in May 2010 by mayor Boris Johnson, Sir Michael Caine, and museum director Jack Lohman.
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Sackler Hall during construction, at the heart of the new Galleries of Modern London
Credits
Animation and Data Visualisation by FIELD
Production and Film Direction by The Light Surgeons
Commissioned by the Museum of London
Documentary by Saskia Schmidt
