James Faure Walker: F-G and the Iron Clocks of Film
Artist(s):
Title:
- F-G and the Iron Clocks of Film
Exhibition:
- SIGGRAPH 2001: n-space
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Creation Year:
- 2000
Medium:
- Giclee iris print presented framed in window mount with four inch border
Size:
- 28 inches x 36 inches
Category:
Artist Statement:
“F-G and the Iron Clocks of Film” was a by-product of some research I was doing at Kingston University for an exhibition last June entitled “Silent Motion.” This exhibition juxtaposes Muybridge’s photo sequences of the 1880s with present-day digital work. Muybridge came from Kingston, near London, and spent his last years there. Contraptions such as his “zoopraxiscope,” or the Friese-Greene camera-projectors in this picture, represent pioneering hardware – some would say extinct media – that hold iconic status for artists working to come to terms with the hybrid forms of digital art. In 1889, William Friese-Greene made a film in Hyde Park; the film was stereoscopic, made of paper, and looks like a Seurat painting. I photographed these cameras in Kingston Museum. Damaged by fire 100 years ago, they were salvaged from an Islington. factory and given to the museum in 1974. They also appear reproduced in the 1948 biography by Ray Allister – a pseudonym for Muriel Forth. By the time I photographed the cameras, the reels had been transposed.
All Works by the Artist(s) in This Archive:
- James Faure Walker
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A Pony in Clerkenwell
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Die Formes: Flight
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Undecided 2: Market Research in the Narr...
[SIGGRAPH 1998] -
Dark Filament
[SIGGRAPH 2007] -
The Song of the Revolving Drawing
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Frog, Greenwood Road
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Studio Chairs
[SIGGRAPH 2003] -
Drawn Trees
[SIGGRAPH 2003] -
Pigeons, Kyoto
[SIGGRAPH 2003] -
Figures in a Landscape
[SIGGRAPH 2003] -
F-G and the Iron Clocks of Film
[SIGGRAPH 2001] -
Global Coffee
[SIGGRAPH 2001] -
Colour and Drawing: From a Garden Table
[SIGGRAPH 1999] -
Blue Bowls
[SIGGRAPH 2002] -
From a Log Cabin
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011] -
Villa Dora
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011] -
Untitled
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011]