The Art of Surveillance
By Hugh Hart
11.30.07
London Bridge
It's not falling down. Instead, the storied span has been rigged with motion sensors. "We monitored all the movement of people going across London Bridge and played it back as a matrix of colors on the top truss of Tower Bridge a few blocks away," says designer Jason Bruges. The installation also detects every phone with a visible Bluetooth connection and projects a color unique to the Bluetooth address.
Jason Bruges does a lot of work with motion detection, he is speaking here about his contribution to the Pandamonia project: This studio proves the potential for marketable products and that clients are now the stakeholders of technology it is not so surprising that the Tower Bridge project was supported. (I do not know who the client was, but it could easily have been a mobile phone company or a bluetooth provider. The demand for complex interactive work is demonstated by the success of this company. In an interview Jason Bruge stated that he didn't have a job description. This area is so new that old forms simply do not fit any longer.
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