Ok, so he should probably stick to visual art and let someone else write his copy, and this project feels a little like a segment on the old Saturday Night Live skit, “Sprockets,” but we’ve never seen high-rise construction recorded quite like this. Artist Lincoln Schatz is creating a “multi-perspective generative video work” that will trace development of 600 N. Fairbanks from groundbreaking through completion.
Two plasma screen TVs in the lobby of 600 N. Fairbanks, designed by Helmut Jahn, will show “video layers” of 18 months of footage from four cameras (indicated by orange circles in photo) for an overlaid, collage sort of effect. The cameras are mounted on the roof of an adjacent building, the top of the tower crane, the end of the tower crane’s horitzontal boom and on Lincoln’s own hand as he roams the site. How did Lincoln Schatz get the gig? We can’t be sure, but along with Urban R2, “Schatz,” controlled by Noah Schatz, of Schatz, Inc., is co-developer of the project.
Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!