Got an interesting exhibition to report on here. In the words of its creator:

At 5:30pm on Thursday 7th December 2006, the lights in the Aston Webb Rotunda were dimmed and the Leica HDS3000 started to make its record. For 90 minutes, an intense shaft of green laser light stretching vertically from the floor to the centre of the dome crept clockwise around the space. Nothing could escape its gaze. Over fifty people came for the event, each taking a turn to stand still for a minute, eyes closed, as the beam, recording many millions of points, passed over them.

The laser in question is owned by Birmingham University’s Hewlett Packard Vistual and Spatial Technology Centre, and is normally used for surveying and engineering. For A Passing Moment artist Ian Upton and archaeologist Steve Wilkes from HP VISTA have taken a host of advanced visualisation technologies and created a work of art. A Passing Moment is the result of laser-scanning a whole building, and the images are incredible: they vary from the incredibly sharp to the skewed perception that makes you doubt which way is up.

The exhibition is free and on until the 31st of August, so don’t take my word for it: please do drop into the Sky Gallery on Second Nature to take a look or contact Ian Pahute in world for more details.

PS: Andy, if you’re reading this, how’s my SLurl? It works fine for me, but that doesn’t seem to say much!