“I’ve been interested in is this new form of video that has this sense of place,” says Clark. You can see a film anywhere, but Clark makes his films site-specific. His installation has aspects of both sculpture and bits of narrative. After he shoots, he goes through “the elaborate process of stitching them together.” To make the film, Clark visited the locations with a 360-degree array made up of six GoPro cameras. Clark’s film seeks to contrast the present-day locations with the novel’s descriptions of 1917. Julianne SteevesĪ booming voice recites passages from the novel as disjointed and sometimes jarring footage of Halifax landmarks appear as they are today. “So as you’re reading it, you’re like, ‘there’s Barrington Street, there’s the Citadel,’ and you can map it.” The novel Barometer Rising was on display during Nocturne as part of Clark’s installation. “It’s the first novel that uses Halifax as a recognizable city,” Clark says of the book, first published in 1941. Lately, he has worked on incorporating new media like virtual reality and 360-degree video into his art. Using augmented reality to remember the Halifax Explosion (November 9, 2017)Ĭlark teaches in the intermedia department at NSCAD University, where he mixes film, sculpture and web media.
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