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Harewood

From June 2008 until November 2009 a webcam was installed overlooking Harewood House’s classical ‘Capability’ Brown landscape. It transmitted and recorded images at the rate of a pixel a second so that a whole image represented the previous 21.33 hours. Each image was collected from top to bottom and left to right in horizontal bands continuously. As well as creating a perpetually updating 'live' image onscreen, Harewood saved an image every few minutes, translating into an accumulating archive, with each image - or still - forming a complete work in itself. 
Harewood forms part of an ongoing and innovative series of constructed landscapes employing transmission, networking and time as primary materials. Two earlier works, Fenlandia (2004-5) and Glenlandia (2005-7) addressed the relationship between man made landscape and technological innovation in the areas known as Silicon Fen and Silicon Glen respectively. Harewood looked more explicitly at the notion of a constructed landscape in relation to the picturesque. The gardens at Harewood House were designed by 'Capability' Brown to achieve a specific aesthetic goal in relation to landscape painting.
 Harewood was commissioned by Harewood House, Leeds. It exists online as a website; as a live screen based installation, and as a series of archival digital inkjet prints. Group exhibitions include:
Work and Play, Harewood House, Leeds 2008; Travelogue, One in The Other, London 2008; Town and Country, Project Space Leeds 2009; The Lake Show, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Søro, Denmark 2009; Harewood 21, Harewood House, Leeds 2010 and Time Landscapes, Electronic Village Galleries, Cornwall 2011. Four archival digital inkjet prints from Harewood have been acquired by the Harewood House Trust.

 More information on Harewood can be found at:
http://www.susan-collins.net/harewood.