This project is all so fresh ... Do I have any ideas of what I would like to do ?
At that point, I think I enjoy looking around, getting to know people and their ideas/work.
But I must say that I've already got an idea of what I would like the show or the room I'd like to work for, to be like ... I'd like it to be dark with lights (Hilary ?) and all sorts of projections ... with sounds .... I'd like the audience to engage with the work as being part of it. It would be some kind of "all senses" experience that would bring you to another dimension (that's my idea of a "story"). More something of an atmosphere to experience, a space to discover with all your senses. Maybe somewhere to sit or lie down and observe ... taking time, relaxing, contemplating ...
I love this image of Eleanor's camera obscura
Lisa, wouldn't you see yourself moving in such an installation ? ... it reminds me of your performance with dancers+screen+coloured lights. (could you add some to that blog ?)
Is that possible to obtain images of moving people in/with a camera obscura ?
Or to get the audience in it/interacting with it ?
Here are some photos of my first trials of projection (overhead projector) onto tissue paper. I like the fact that you can see the projector itself.
And a video : the paper was moving because of the heat of the projector
Anne : this is not high technology but I love photocopying and scanning.
Well, I think that's all for today.Oh, also : I made a new entry in http://thesecrazywomen.blogspot.com/
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Celine, I love your projections ideas, 'dark with lights' 'all senses' - this sounds exactly my kind of thing! And I really like the effect of the tissue paper as a screen, the way it moves and the creases.
Let's make your dream to make pinhole cameras/camera obscura come true I say! We could have a go at a pinhole next time we meet if you (and anyone else?) fancy?
I'd been thinking maybe one of our modular rooms could be a camera obscura with some kind of performance outside, audience inside (but with room to move between the two, physically and audience as performers).
And yes it is most definitely possible to have images of moving people, who could be audience members, within the camera obscura. As the image comes in upside down, performers could be dancing on the ceiling. The picture here is from a workshop in which the young people took turns to go inside the camera obscura and guess who the people outside were (the image being not too sharp as you can see).
The challenge will be making the image bright enough - the pic Celine posted was a very long exposure (the actual image was nowhere near as bright as this).
This is something I've been wanting to get to grips with in terms of the physics/optics/lenses side of it - it could mean getting a lens specially made to suit our space, which, I've read, is possible to get done by an optician. I suspect I'm getting ahead of myself though for now.
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