Nic Clear and Hyun Jun Park have selected and
scanned three iconic sites in Huddersfield: Castle Hill, Queensgate Market and
the Railway Station. They have manipulated the scan data to represent and
explore these familiar spaces in unique ways through the production of images,
animations and drawings, and in doing so expand the possibilities of
contemporary spatial representation.
The information produced by the scans is
highly technical and yet the images themselves evoke a much more speculative
response to the sites, and when used in combination with other techniques it
facilitates both an extremely precise mapping of the spaces as well as the
opportunity to develop narratives around the spaces that engage with a wider
set of ideas and values. The ability to manipulate the ‘point-cloud’ data
allows Clear and Park to create synthetic spatial models that exists between
the virtual and the actual and combine the ‘measured, the ‘experienced’ and even
the ‘practiced’ in a way that no other form of spatial mapping is capable of.
