Expanded cinema is a form of art where the viewer not only watches the film as in the cinema but also engages with it.
What started as films involving other forms of art and technology, as in Stan VanDerBeek's films such as Wheeeeels No. 2, 1959
developed into a new art form, taken out of the confines of movie theatres where the audience is passive into the public areas with the audience becoming participators in creation, as in Anthony McCall's films/installations of light projected onto a room where people entering it would also enter the film space and alter it with their presence, as in Long Film for Four Projectors and Four Projected Movements as well as the more recent Between You and I:
Not only is McCall's work interesting in terms of experimental film/art/installation but also its focus on light and shadow, within the space ad in relation to people moving around it.
One interesting concept about light is that it can define and modify space and our perception of it. It can define space same as objects placed inside even though it is not a material object itself.
One can see that clearly in Rosa Barba's installation using old, loud projectors filling a room with light and sound. The projectors are arranged with consideration for space, filling it and giving it ambience that is only enhanced by constant whirring of projectors, immersing visitors fully upon entrance.
The theme of light and shadow in space is ever present in film but there are also artists who deal with light as such. One of the big names is James Turrell. His art deals with light in spaces and as such modifies and defines them. However, his interest in light is broader than spatial definition, it really is light in all its aspects.
Some if hi
s works are holograms with their eerie colours, partly resembling the results one gets when using pinhole cameras - blurred shapes and exaggerated colours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three-dimentional.
This technique was invented in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. The discovery came as an unexpected result of research into improving electron microscopes.The technique, as originally invented, is still used in electron microscopy, known as electron holography, but holography as a light-optical technique did not advance until the development of the laser in 1960s.
However, this is just one way of looking at light. Since the game of light and shadow is ever present on my chosen site, with its curves taking the opposites of fully lit by sun or covered in deep shadow depending which side you look at it, that is one way to explore the possibilities of developing the project around that.
Not only is McCall's work interesting in terms of experimental film/art/installation but also its focus on light and shadow, within the space ad in relation to people moving around it.
One interesting concept about light is that it can define and modify space and our perception of it. It can define space same as objects placed inside even though it is not a material object itself.
One can see that clearly in Rosa Barba's installation using old, loud projectors filling a room with light and sound. The projectors are arranged with consideration for space, filling it and giving it ambience that is only enhanced by constant whirring of projectors, immersing visitors fully upon entrance.
The theme of light and shadow in space is ever present in film but there are also artists who deal with light as such. One of the big names is James Turrell. His art deals with light in spaces and as such modifies and defines them. However, his interest in light is broader than spatial definition, it really is light in all its aspects.
Some if hi
s works are holograms with their eerie colours, partly resembling the results one gets when using pinhole cameras - blurred shapes and exaggerated colours.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography
Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three-dimentional.
This technique was invented in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. The discovery came as an unexpected result of research into improving electron microscopes.The technique, as originally invented, is still used in electron microscopy, known as electron holography, but holography as a light-optical technique did not advance until the development of the laser in 1960s.
However, this is just one way of looking at light. Since the game of light and shadow is ever present on my chosen site, with its curves taking the opposites of fully lit by sun or covered in deep shadow depending which side you look at it, that is one way to explore the possibilities of developing the project around that.
