Research for Scanimation

Some artists that I have looked at are:
  
Ludwig Wilding
(19 May 1927 – 4 January 2010)  German born artist whose work was associated with op art and kinetic art.Wilding's works are three-dimensional structures that create shifting patterns through their black and white designs and have been shown in exhibitions such as The Responsive Eye ( Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965), Eyes, Lies and Illusions ( Hayward Gallery, London, 2004), and Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s (The Columbus Museum of Art,Ohio 2007) and many more. Wilding studied history of art at the University of Magonza and attended courses at the Academy of Fine Arts at Stuttgart. It was between 1951 and 1955 where he produced single-dimension works in black and white, based on "mathematical variations of geometrical constructions". In 1953 he started his "Optical Interference" series in two dimensions, a project that he was to continue in the years to come. His research included identifying and isolating the elements he considered primary and essential, especially the line, the white and the black as elementary or primary structures. His technique included superimposed and staggered networks of lines, producing effects of optical perturbation and even vertigo. So in other words, giving the illusion of movement.

 

Rufus Butler Seder

Probably the most famous for using the scanimation technique in his work. Originally a film maker, Seder had a fascination with antique motion picture toys which led him to create movies on a grand scale experimenting with using no electricity, moving parts or special lighting.He developed an 8" square, three-pound, lens-ribbed glass tile, called a LIFETILE and by combining many LIFETILES was able to create large-scale "Movies for the Wall": optical wall pieces that appear to come to life, move and change when the observer walks by.Since the 90s Seder has created murals using this technique all over the world. Other items he has created include the Cinespinner which is basically suncatchers with images that spring to life in a window when they rotate at the end of their string, greeting cards where the image appears to move when you open them and a line of books for children filled with scanimations of different sorts.

 I don't think I'll be using LIFETILES in my project for they seem way too complicated for me to be able to create on my own but I will be using the concept of his Cinespinner in order to present  my work. Anyway this is how the Lifetile works : Each installation involve filming live subjects, computer animation or hand-drawn motion studies. Once this is done a combination of analog and digital techniques are used to produce the 'coded images' that are fused into the back of the glass tiles. When the viewer walks past the installation, the ribbed tile lenses unscramble the coded images 'frame by frame', and the observer's brain links this rapid succession of images together, creating the impression of movement.

Dick Frizzell

New Zealand born artist, his work is best described as expressionist pop because of his appropriation of kitsch kiwiana icons and incorporation of them into his often cartoon-like paintings and lithographs. He does not stay within one particular style, and often adopts unfashionable painting styles and can be compared to artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Hartigan, Ian Scott, and Andy Warhol because of this. Famous works are with the use of the Four Square Man used as advertisement for the chain of grocery stores.Dick Frizzell initially worked as a commercial artist after graduating from the University of Canterbury in 1964 which placed him within the environment from which much of his imagery has evolved from.

other artists I looked at include renegade urban graffti artist Banksy (see above). This work inparticular criticises the idea of how countries such as America tend to dominate over others. Banksy is a English based graffti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, he displays his art on public surfaces such as walls and even going as far as to build physical prop pieces but never directly sells his own work.