Showing posts with label Sara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sara. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 January 2013

Visual Poetry by Heinz Gappmayr






































Zeit (1967), visual poetry by Austrian artist  Heinz Gappmayr (1925–2010).

Eclipse


Adam David Brown, Eclipse, blackboard with layering of the scientific notations of Newton, Einstein, and Hawking in order to make a black hole

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Bedscapes (2011)








This is Bedscapes #1-3, an excerpt from the Bedscapes project (2011) by Sara Arnald. The complete project comprises eight pieces which will be shown side by side; big, matte prints, each 2,5 metres wide. 

Sunday, 4 November 2012

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Movements of Air Etienne-Jules Marey - Photographer of Fluids






Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)Triangular prism presenting one of its bases to the air stream, fourth and lastversion of the smoke machine equipped with 57 channels1901© Cinémathèque française
"Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) - physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor in 1882 of chronophotography, a technique anticipating cinematography. He devoted three years at the end of his life, from 1899 to 1909, to photographing movements of air.
The beauty and enigmatic character of his shots of smoke are striking to today's visitors, but they also raise numerous questions. Why were these pictures produced  ? What was the purpose of the research and with what techniques were they conducted  ? Why did he turn to instant photography at a time (1899-1902) when chronophotography and cinematography were already commonly used  ? To understand this, one has to go back to the origins of the technique that dominated the physiologist's life and work: the graphic method."
From Musée d'Orsay