Brixworth Country Park
Northampton Road
Brixworth
Northampton
NN6 9DG
1 June – 30 June 2025
30 Days is an interactive outdoor media piece by Felix Loftus, which will run throughout June at Brixworth Country Park. An application of sustainable computing principles, and an experiment in bringing a public camera and signpost into common use where members of the public contribute to a growing image of the landscape.
The work involves two pieces: a solar powered camera on a platform that can be rotated 360 degrees by turning a hand crank; plus a signpost with e-paper displays of the captured views found on location, and also represented online here.
30 Days is an experiment in communally imaging a landscape, drawing inspiration from the history of resistance to enclosure in Britain and the Otmoor Rebellion – where commoners waited until the light of the full moon to access the landscape.
In reference to this act, the solar powered photographic system will build up images over a lunar cycle beginning on 1 June 2025, stitching together images from those who have interacted during that period into a 360 degree image of the site.
Visit Brixworth Country Park throughout June to see the work in action and learn more about permacomputing methodologies by exploring the online work below.
Please note that as the nature of the work does not encourage instant gratification, the images below may take a moment to generate.
Originally commissioned thanks to Northamptonshire Community Foundation’s Northamptonshire Creative Climate Action Fund 2024.