@ ISEA 2006
dataflow diagram, mechanical design
& software algorithm
prototype
Phenakistoscape
“The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope) was an
early
animation device, the predecessor to the zoetrope. It was invented in
1831
simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von
Stampfer.
One variant of the phenakistoscope was a spinning disc mounted
vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc was drawn a
series of
pictures corresponding to frames of the animation; around its
circumference was
a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through
the moving
slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits
across the
reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the
user would
see a rapid succession of images with the appearance of a motion
picture.
Another variant had two discs, one with slits and one with pictures;
this was
slightly more unwieldy but needed no mirror. Unlike the zoetrope and
its
successors, the phenakistoscope could only practically be used by one
person at
a time.
The word "phenakistoscope" comes from Greek roots meaning
"deceiving
viewer".”
Except from Wikipedia.org
Phenakistoscape
is a kinetic interface experiments are contextualized within
the larger context of an investigation into the metaphysics of moving
image
projection and an exploration to the language of “Mobile
Projection” with
particular emphasis upon on their distinctive temporal, spatial
modalities.
A mechanical algorithmic approach to the video projection is introduced
as
“Language of Mobile Screen”. New methods for
extending the practice of moving
image space with physical space are presented as a means of dynamic and
unexpected labyrinth as a reconstructed architecture of time and space.
It
endows with an entirely distinct scheme for unfolding the profound
poetry
encoded in cinematic space, hence to create an exceptional perception
of
moving images.