Keyword Index
Selected keyword: cinema
Work: 935 m de bande, Daniel Buren
Artist: Benayoun, Maurice
Comment: A l’image du « Corridoscope » de Buren, où alternent des bandes noires et blanches, le montage exploite une succession régulière de plans très courts. 935 mètres de bande adopte un tempo saccadé qui...
Work: Beyond
Artist: Beloff, Zoe
Comment: In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, Beyond explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction: the phonograph severing the...
Work: Brakelights
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Brakelights is a real-time computer system that senses color changes in the environment to make choices from a database of dialogue lines…a live cinema-generating machine. The program reads the color...
Work: Ceci n'est pas un oiseau
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: Ceci n'est pas un oiseau is a projection installation comprising a specially built animation projector and a system of four automated semi-transparent screens. The projector projects a looped series...
Work: Continuous Sound and Image Moments
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Continuous Sound and Image Moments is a hand-drawn black-and-white animated film loop with no beginning or end. Conceived as a cinematic expansion of pictorial means, the process of making thousands...
Work: Diadrama
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Diadrama was an audio-visual performance with over 2000 slides being projected onto a large wide screen by three pairs of synchronised slide projectors. The main themes explored in this work were...
Work: Disillusion of Women Wrestling
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The film Continuous Sound and Image Moments (1966) was projected onto a live performance of professional female mud wrestlers.
Work: Displacements
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture...
Work: Drive
Artist: Crandall, Jordan
Comment: Drive is a video installation that combines traditional cinematic technology with new digital and military-based imaging systems. These include new tracking, identifying, and targeting technologies....
Work: Figure
Artist: Hakola, Marikki
Comment: FIGURE is an interactive installation. Spectators are invited to take part in the formation process of the cinematic meaning. The interaction is based on the conversation between the moving body and...
Work: GPSFilm
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: GPS Film is the first locative media narrative system to merge mobile and GPS technologies. A way to watch cinema based on the viewer’s location and movement, the original source code was released...
Work: iC_inema 1
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: iC_inema is an experiment in search of a completely new form of interactive cinema. With twelwe cameras a 360 degree panoramic view of the real world is recorded. Costum software combines the twelwe...
Work: Mesmer: Secrets of the Human Frame
Artist: Dove, Toni
Comment: Is a computer-driven slide installation with a soundtrack. The images are projected onto a wall and onto net hung in a ladder . The net creates hologram-like three-dimensional effects. Computerized...
Work: Pneu-Written
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.
Work: Scottish Sorrow
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A city counsil street light repair vehicle was completely covered in tartan printed plastic. It drove nightly through Edinburgh broadcasting traditional bagpipe music and projecting tartan patterns...
Work: SeeBanff!
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: SEE BANFF! is an interactive stereoscopic installation. It bears a strong - and intentional - resemblance to an Edison kinetoscope, which made its public debut one hundred years ago in April 1894. It...
Work: Smokescreen
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In Smokescreen a row of smoke canisters along the whole front side of the Swansea University created a thick smoke-screen behind which the building completely disappeared for a while. Portions of...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 1: The Image Mill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture.
As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 2: Lenticular Bicycle
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 3: Praxinoscope Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 5: Dual Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks...
Work: The Moon is a Mirror
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: This series of artworks contemplates the screen and its origins. My time in the villages of Southeast Asia has shown me an array of organic resources that can be formed into papers. I've researched...
Work: Wind and Rain
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A room was densely and completely filled with confetti that was being vigorously blown about by big fans. At one point a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention...