Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope
Eric Dyer: L'art oublié du zootrope
Eric Dyer is an artist and educator who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures and installations. Full bio
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way too much time, in front of a screen
beaucoup trop, devant mon écran,
presented on a screen,
projeté sur un écran.
to get my hands back on the work again.
de retrouver physiquement mon travail.
as cinema and television,
et la télévision n'existe,
sous cette forme-ci.
into the inside of the drum,
à travers les fentes,
get my hands on again.
que mon art a pris vie.
on a Fulbright Fellowship.
grâce à une bourse Fulbright.
moving elements of Copenhagen:
mobiles de Copenhague :
back into the physical world
dans le monde physique
strips of ink-jet paper
form of the zoetrope,
with a video camera.
par une caméra.
make these physical objects,
créer des objets physiques
au départ de ces objets.
"Copenhagen Cycles."
« Vélos de Copenhague. »
to get my hands back on the work again
remis les mains dans le cambouis,
with my face plastered to a screen,
devant mon écran,
with our new family
avec notre nouvelle famille,
of art and life.
de symbiose entre la vie et l'art.
into "wheel of life."
par « la roue de la vie. »
could be experienced as such,
la sculpture animée telle quelle,
kind of animated sculpture.
totale dans l'animation.
for the zoetrope tunnel.
du zootrope en tunnel.
stroboscopique à la main.
in the next 30 to 40 years.
d'ici 30 ou 40 ans.
qui a la moitié de la taille réelle.
sur ce plancher
animées sur les parois
that it reminded them of an MRI.
que ça ressemblait à un scanner IRM.
une dégénérescence de la rétine
a degenerative retinal condition
to that in my work.
ce sujet dans mon travail.
in this piece called, "Implant."
appelée « greffe. »
super-magnified medical device
à grande échelle,
miniaturized to experience it.
miniaturisé pour le découvrir.
of cell-sized robots
de la taille d'une cellule,
in and out of the optic nerve,
et sortant du nerf optique,
of my own incurable disorder.
que j'ai créé pour ma maladie incurable.
and gene therapy research,
et de la thérapie génétique,
to unhealthy cells using viruses.
à des cellules malades à l'aide de virus.
fluffy hope in this,
coloré et soyeux.
threatening idea
angoissante et glauque
an invasive species in your body.
en parasite envahissant notre corps.
to take me away from the things
m'a conduit à m'éloigner
in an automobile,
process in the studio, primarily,
concentré sur un processus visuel intense,
of San Diego, California.
à l'Est de San Diego, en Californie.
and so devoid of motion.
et sans mouvement.
dans un endroit plus figé.
place I've ever been.
of my own body through the landscape
de mon corps dans le paysage
from those photographs.
au départ de ces photos.
d'éléments imprimés.
a zoetrope laid flat.
landscape panorama.
d'une vue panoramique de l'Ouest.
there's a video monitor
il y a un vidéo
hidden within the artwork.
qui se cache dans l'œuvre.
about this project for me
with my brother a lot,
du temps avec mon frère.
in this seemingly eternal landscape
dans ce paysage éternel,
pendant des millions d'années,
memory loss and infection.
de pertes de mémoires et d'infections.
en tant qu'individu,
to one of my mentors.
à un de mes mentors.
presence is important
physique est cruciale
de recherche de l'Image
at the Imaging Research Center
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Eric Dyer - Artist, educatorEric Dyer is an artist and educator who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures and installations.
Why you should listen
Eric Dyer spent years working at a computer to produce images for the screen. Longing to "get my hands back on the work," he returned to a tactile creative process. He began exploring the zoetrope, an early form of animation. The device, popular in the 19th century, consists of a slitted drum whose interior is lined with a sequence of images. When the object is spun, the viewer peers through the apertures in the drum and the forms appear to move. By replacing the drum with a fast-shutter digital video camera, Dyer invented the process of making films from spinning sculptures. He continues to innovate with new tools and applications, moving his work off the screen and into real spaces.
Dyer work has been widely exhibited at events and venues such as the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Ars Electronica, international animation festivals in numerous countries, the screens of Times Square, and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Artist and Guggenheim Fellow. Dyer's fervent exploration of expression through motion has placed his work in books such as Re-imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image, Pervasive Animation, Animation: A World History and A New History of Animation. He has been a visiting artist at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, ECNU in Shanghai, and CalArts. Dyer teaches visual arts and animation at UMBC in Baltimore, MD and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
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