Abel, Manuela () -Jeffrey Shaw - a user's manual; from expanded cinema to virtual reality (1997) [Edition ZKM/Cantz; Karlsruhe/Ostfildern; p.175]
Continuous Sound and Image Moments (1966) is a handdrawn black-and-white animated film loop. Conceived as a cinematic expansion of pictorial means, the process of making thousands of drawings (rather than any individual picture) is the subject of the aesthetic experience. Each image is shown for only a few frames, constituting momentary retinal impressionsions that assimilate in time into an insubstantial yet coherent multiformity. [p.60]
The film was later used in many events/performances and situations/installations such as Emergences of Continuous Forms (1966), This is No Thing - This is a Situation ofOpporriOT'fy(1967), Glove Screen (1967), Corpocinema (1967) and MovieMovie(1967). [p.61]
Emergences of Continuous Forms (Better Books, London, UK, 1966) was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and of provoking the viewer's physical interactivity in the cinematic experience. Multiple semi-transparent projection screens were hung in two rows over the length of the gallery producing a spatial materialization of the film images. {split cell} One of these screens had a transparent compartment filled with white balloons. Tubes coming out of the screen allowed the public to inflate these balloons and so control the shape of the projection surface. Smoke was also used to create another threedimensional medium for the projected image as it passed from one screen surface to another. This installation extended out into the streets of London with a procession of costumed performers and musicians. [p.62-63]
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