12. JUNE 12

EYE FILMMUSEUM

The cinematic memory of the netherlands
What do you think about the building?
Built in 2012
Only essential 90-degree angles in design

Houses 60,000 films from all genres. 

Pre-cinema:
Diorama 18th century
Zoetrope 1834
Stereoscope 1880-1920
Magic Lantern 1880
 
Cinematographe (Lumiere bros) 1895
Mutoscope 1894-1930 (cartoons and erotic films) 
Kinamo camera 1922  (35mm but portable)
After 1927 movies had sound “talkies” 
Holmes projector 1930s (adaptation of sewing machine mechanism to advance frames)
Mitchel camera 1935

One way to develop new ideas is to revisit the past and hit it with your perspective with new technology.

Pre-cinema technology–relate it to New Media

How could low-tech or obsolete technology be effectively used in a new media piece?

Pick one technology. Take a pic. Read the card for it. Think about what intrigues you about it.

What did you think about the interactive room? The concept? The execution?

Compare it to the interactivity at the Depot
What could’ve made it better? Does it serve its purpose?

How are movies magic? Transformative? alchemical?

The quote, "time is the moving image of eternity," is attributed to Plato in his dialogue Timaeus. It describes the relationship between time and eternity, where time is a representation of eternity, a constantly moving and changing version of the timeless and unchanging state of being. 

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zone2source (Henriques) ECOSHROOM [the glass building with the plants in the park]
Is it science, art, architecture?

Is it answering or asking questions?

What is a prototype? A model? An apparatus? A concept?

Would hou have understood the concept of the project by just having access to the sculptural part of the project, without the video or any written explanation? How important is it that you would have, or would not have?

How would this project be different in a gallery within the city? How did the park as a meta-context inform your experience of the work?