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The Carousel 2022

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The Carousel, 2022 (Materials) | 8 Kodak Carousel S, Paper, Aluminium, Custom Made Electronics. Dimensions: ❬0.6m x 1.0m x 2.8m❭

The sculpture utilizes eight Kodak Carousel S slide film projectors arranged in a 2x4 grid to produce an analog generative animation. The slide frames contain no film but paper cutouts, a homage to cinema's roots in shadow theater.

Eight modified Kodak timers with photoresistors create a poetic feedback loop like an Ouroboros. The ambient light of the machines modifies the timer's duration slightly via the photoresistors, thus randomizing the timers and the selection of future images. Therefore, enabling the artwork to reach a massive potential of 65536 unique abstract projections, composing an animation with no set duration.

Drone-like sounds of whirling fans within the projectors are accentuated with the rhythmical and mechanical clicks of the projector's internal cam-driven logic controllers to form an abstract audial composition. Unlike conventional animation, the artwork runs at a reduced frame rate of approximately 12 frames per minute. The inspiration for this is ambient music, the beauty that space can give to sound, and how that concept can be applied abstractly to animation.


The Carousel, 2022 Video documentation @ The Artists Studio, Leipzig.



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The Carousel



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The Carousel @ 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK.




The Carousel, 2024 Video documentation @ (Un)holy Light, Leuven, Belgium.



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The Carousel



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The Carousel



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The Carousel



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The Carousel | Projected onto Glass @ Media Art Friesland, Leeuwarden, Holland