Updates
Update from Gary Evans, Liverpool FETTU organizer
(28 April 2008)
Recently, I went up to Liverpool for the trial installation last Friday. After some negotiation, we now have the
agreement of all the stakeholders in this project - site management, site
owners, heritage officials, tennants and residents - and clearance by security
and health & safety officers.
The print itself is awesome - at three metres long the Carina nebula has to
be a winner anyway. Very impressed with the quality of the print itself in
terms of colour and tone reproduction. The mounting on aluminium looks
very high-class, especially as we have had a radius cut on the corners (no
sharp edges!).
During discussions we decided on the slightly lower setting for the panel.
This has a great benefit of making the captions more accessible to children
or wheelchair users, for example, and also increases the natural lighting. I
don't believe it has any impact on the visibility of the panels as such.
The panel was left in place for a few hours, and I'd say 50% of people walking
along the dockside stopped to look at the panel, and about one in six looked
at the caption. I think this completely validates the reasoning behind FETTU,
the average person on the street is attracted to these images and I have
every confidence that the Liverpool prototype will be a huge success. In the image above: trial installation of an actual image panel at the Liverpool site.
-Gary Evans
Locations scouted
(28 April 2008)
Updated: the map showing locations where interest has been expressed in hosting an IYA image exhibition in 2009. Read more on the "About" page.
