page_title: Fiona Bowie
section_title: Flow
hierarchical_section_title: Fiona Bowie / Public Art Works / Flow
caption_attribution_description: English: Still from "Flow".
context_page_description: Fiona Bowie is a Vancouver-based Canadian installation artist. She uses film, video, photography and sculpture, and makes "immersive environments".
context_section_description: In 2009, Fiona Bowie's "Flow" opened at the Civic Centre at 1 Kingsway. Vancouver's first video/photography-based permanent public art installation.Flow, produced by Bowie with Sidney Fels, a UBC  Computer Scientist, was commissioned by the City of Vancouver. Rebecca Belmore, initially part of the artist team, could not participate in the project due to time constraints. 
  
  This was the first permanent installation of timebased photo and media work in the City of Vancouver. Flow is a continually changing Mise en scène that uses open source software to access a library of images shot by Bowie over a period of four years. Made up of hundreds of portraits and landscapes, the work has been programmed so that 'figures shot at different times appear as if they simultaneously present, with a core group of these figures or actors recurring in a manner that implicitly suggests they're part of a larger narrative'. 
   
  The special glass projection material, Smart glass, causes portions of the imagery to disappear as the projection surface switches from translucent to clear, fragmenting the image and frustrating it's coherence.
  
  "Flow" also has an interactive web component where visitors are encouraged to add dialogue to images captured from a live feed of the work. 
  The dialogue consists of phrases penned by Bowie and bands such as the New Pornographers and The Residents. Once images and dialogue are captured by visitors to the site, these are preserved as stills in the websites archive
caption: Still from "Flow"
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