These 360 videos archive my experimental installations with curved screens. Both sessions took place at DREAM, NTU, as artistic research into embodied encounters.
The first video archives an encounter with a curved screen and a projection of a virtual body. This was an experiment in how the encounter alters if the participant has agency and can control the movement and texture of the moving image. This iteration was made for a VR headset which was shared at the encounter below in 2023, as an interactive archive.
The second video archives an encounter with four curved screens and a slowly rotating projector. It is a re-imagining of the Zoopraxiscope to interrogate 360 vision and embodiment.
In 1879 stop motion photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, invented the Zoopraxiscope, which projected a series of sequential images from his photographs, painted onto glass discs, which gave the illusion of movement.
Muybridge chose the name Zoopraxiscope, to include the Greek word for action: praxis. The title’s etymological root being: life, action, vision.
Inspired by this early moving image projector, I have created a circular viewing installation with curved translucent screens and a slowly rotating projector. The projector rotates at a speed of 3.5 rotations per minute, resulting in approximately 17 seconds for a full 360 pass; with 4 seconds spent on each screen, allowing for the in- between moments.
Unlike Muybridge, whose intention was to create an illusion of a moving image, I aim to draw attention to the in-between moments, the hesitant stops and starts of movement. In this video you can see the participants walking around the outside of the screens, doing an affective dance with the movement of the projector.