This is a short video that illustrates how the composite images were constructed.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1478762098325

Alex Hayes working on site at Tarra Warra before the exhibition opening.

Nillumbik Shire Council has a population of 60,623 who live in close-knit communities which range from urban settings to remote and tranquil bush, located 25 kilometres north-east of Melbourne.  Scheduled to coincide with the second anniversary of Black Saturday, Nillumbik Shire Council invited artists to submit work in an exhibition which chronicles the effect the fires have had on the people, townships, and landscape of the Shire. Many local artists have found their creative practice restorative as they purge 7th February 2009, others simply want their own humble record of destruction and renewal. Selected works from the Nillumbik Art Collection will be featured.

An exhibition marking the 2 nd anniversary of the Black Saturday Bush fire  Lloyd will be exhibiting a version of the Entropy String randomized projection in this curated group exhibtion. A curated exhibition featuring works by local artists alongside works from the Nillumbik Art Collection.

I built up a huge resource of images that I then combined into huge composite images. Working with Alex Hayes on the IT aspect of the project together we produced a complex randomized projection piece. The projection application was written in C++ and when playing began by selecting one of 22 large composite images and randomly generated a pathway to a single image which eventually filled the screen before returning to another large composite image. Initially the application was written in Java but this proved to be not as smooth as we anticipated so the application was then rewritten by Alex in C++. The projection played at 120 frames per second and manages over 4,500 images.