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Solar Powered Video Installations by Tom Hansell
 The Slow Voltage installation is a portable solar powered exhibit. This installation demonstrates alternative energy while presenting documentary film, photography, and sculpture about energy policy. Slow Voltage is an ideal conversation starter for communities to begin to imagine a future beyond fossil fuels.
The installation mixes familiar symbols - dollar signs, electric meters, and electrical safety icons - with documentary film images of electricity production. Additionally, a short silent film edited entirely from archival images plays on a small screen, while a sixteen minute film with sound is projected by solar power on to a large screen. Solar lights illuminate photographic slides and electric meters to fill the space around the screens. Audience members can pass through the installation quickly, relying on the symbols to give a quick impression, or they can linger and experience the documentary video. The Slow Voltage Installation is part of the Fossil Fools art Collective Photos of the Slow Voltage Installation at the Headlands Center for the Arts
A solar powered video display built in a high voltage power center salvaged from the mines; the Sunscreen’s video clips explain how the display works, illustrate methods of electricity production, and explore the historical relationship between people and electricity in Appalachia. The Sunscreen will be part of the 2006 Kentucky Solar Tour presented by Appalachia Science in the Public Interest and the Kentucky Solar Partnership.
See photos of the Splitscreen at Appalshop’s Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. |
Video projected on to a two-piece coal truck windshield allows viewers to experience the road from a trucker’s point of view on one half of the screen. The other half of the windshield/screen features the perspective of community members and safety advocates concerned about overweight coal hauling.
