Brighton: Remixed
A commissioned video-mapped sculpture that rebuilds Brighton from found objects and filmed fragments gathered across several years.
Brighton: Remixed is a commissioned video-mapped sculpture installation built from found objects and layered with moving images filmed in Brighton over several years. Created for Brighton Digital Festival 2013, the work uses May’s custom Painting With Light software to map different video elements onto individual parts of the sculpture, turning accumulated fragments of the city into a single shifting form. Rather than presenting Brighton as a stable document, the piece treats it as something cut up, rearranged, and experienced through overlapping traces.
The city appears here as something assembled rather than simply remembered. Projection breaks Brighton into reusable traces and lets those traces settle temporarily across scavenged materials, so place becomes an act of recomposition. This way of working runs through May’s practice, where memory is less a stable archive than a structure continually rebuilt by media, time, and circumstance.
Additional notes
- Commissioned by Clearleft for Brighton Digital Festival 2013.
- Built from found objects and augmented with multiple layers of video filmed in Brighton over several years.
- Created using May’s custom video-mapping software, Painting With Light.
- Format: site-specific video-mapped installation with a single computer, single HD video projector, and stereo soundtrack.
- Approximate size: 6m x 4m x 2.5m.
- Created for a specific site and not available for exhibition in another format.
- Video documentation: Vimeo