Wolfgang Weileder

Rynek Starego Miasta, Warsaw, Slice 2640 The 14th Dalai Lama and Lech Walesa arrive on the occasion of the award of the honorary citizenship of Warsaw to The Dalai Lama. Recorded 29/07/2009 Start 9.25am End 3.50pm Interval 4 sec Print 17/05/2011 Slice Maps are a series of archival high-resolution digital prints on acid free matt cotton paper. Based on a new digital photography method developed for the project, the Slice Maps render specific public locations in time into abstract images which clearly evoke the recorded movement of people through locations. A special high-resolution digital camera records a horizontal slice of space (one pixel high) in regular intervals over a predefined period of time. Each of the ‘slices’ is then stacked to form the Slice Map, the vertical axis representing time, the horizontal axis represents the area over which the camera can view. Due to these factors each Slice Map is unique. The project is concerned with time and the use of the space rather than the topography of the place. Time is traced by human activity (the movements of people, the traffic, etc), as well as natural changes (clouds, sun light, etc). Leaving the defining marks, the image was taken in Warsaw. This Slice Map image has recorded within it the Dalai Lama as he visited Warsaw in August 2009, to receive honorary citizenship. This occurrence, not anticipated by Weileder, demonstrates the recurrent phenomena resulting from human trajectory through space, which these works capture.