Future Cinema

Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada

Artist Statement~ “Arrival of the Train”

Method
The installation is designed to accommodate 50 still images arranged in a quasi-elliptical loop in the Augmented Reality Lab at York University.
To capture the arrival of the Metro Train, we shot multiple takes using the 9 frames per second still-burst option, totaling 420 pictures.
We have discovered that 2 frames per second is enough to intelligibly [...]

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Wed, April 4 2012 » futurecinema2_2012 » No Comments

something to ponder for final project : The eyes that stop the train

this might be of interest to the group doing the homage to early cinema. This installation was created by one of my PhD students, Iona Pelovska. It was awarded the Celeste prize last year.
Notes on artwork:
A moving image installation that juxtaposes lenticular viewer-activated prints of a landscape shot from the window of a [...]

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Thu, March 15 2012 » futurecinema2_2012 » No Comments

MEMORIES OF A TOWN An Augmented Reality Installation (ARTISTS STATEMENT)

Cinema is the memory of the lives we haven’t lived. Like amnesiacs in search of lost memories, we watch lives we might have lived, loves we might have loved.
Like a pill combating Alzheimer, Cinema projects in our minds other people’s lives, romances and sorrows.  The physical places where these events take place hold and contain [...]

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Tue, January 31 2012 » Future Cinema 2, assignments, augmented reality, galleries » 1 Comment