Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope
Eric Dyer: A arte esquecida do zootropo
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um animador profissional.
way too much time, in front of a screen
que seria apresentado numa tela,
presented on a screen,
to get my hands back on the work again.
de usar minhas mãos num trabalho de novo.
as cinema and television,
como a televisão e o cinema,
into the inside of the drum,
que mostram o interior do tambor,
get my hands on again.
usar minhas mãos novamente.
on a Fulbright Fellowship.
pelo Programa Fulbright.
moving elements of Copenhagen:
interessantes de Copenhague:
back into the physical world
de volta para o mundo físico
strips of ink-jet paper
longas tiras de papel inkjet
form of the zoetrope,
with a video camera.
por uma câmera de vídeo.
make these physical objects,
a partir desses objetos.
de uma roda de bicicleta.
o filme "Ciclos de Copenhague".
"Copenhagen Cycles."
to get my hands back on the work again
minhas mãos no trabalho novamente,
with my face plastered to a screen,
do dia com a cara de frente a uma tela,
with our new family
com nossa nova família
of art and life.
entre arte e vida.
into "wheel of life."
seja "a roda da vida".
deixa a escultura achatada,
could be experienced as such,
pudesse ser experienciada como tal,
kind of animated sculpture.
completamente imersiva.
for the zoetrope tunnel.
de criar um túnel zootrópico.
com um estroboscópio de mão
a animação ganha vida.
in the next 30 to 40 years.
daqui uns 30, 40 anos.
consegui me deitar nessa ponte,
nas paredes e testar algumas coisas.
that it reminded them of an MRI.
uma máquina de ressonância magnética.
médico me intrigou,
com uma doença degenerativa da retina
a degenerative retinal condition
to that in my work.
a isso usando meu trabalho.
in this piece called, "Implant."
chamado de "Implante".
super-magnified medical device
imaginária e superampliada
miniaturized to experience it.
miniaturizado para experimentar isso.
pode-se explorar a escultura,
of cell-sized robots
de robôs do tamanho de células,
in and out of the optic nerve,
para dentro e fora do nervo óptico,
na retina para repará-la.
of my own incurable disorder.
da minha própria doença incurável.
and gene therapy research,
e suas pesquisas no mundo real,
to unhealthy cells using viruses.
em células não saudáveis usando vírus.
fluffy hope in this,
uma sensação leve e policromática,
threatening idea
assustadora e ameaçadora
an invasive species in your body.
uma espécie invasora em nosso corpo.
to take me away from the things
a me distanciar das coisas
in an automobile,
e metrô e ando muito.
process in the studio, primarily,
intenso, principalmente, num estúdio,
e usando mais os meus sentidos.
of San Diego, California.
do leste de San Diego na Califórnia.
e andei pelos cânions.
que tipo de movimento estaria presente
and so devoid of motion.
e desprovido de movimento.
place I've ever been.
of my own body through the landscape
de meu próprio corpo pela paisagem
from those photographs.
a partir daquelas fotos.
a zoetrope laid flat.
um zootropo deitado e plano.
landscape panorama.
there's a video monitor
há um monitor de vídeo
hidden within the artwork.
escondida dentro da arte.
about this project for me
desse projeto, para mim,
with my brother a lot,
que vive a mais de 4 mil km de mim.
in this seemingly eternal landscape
diante dessa vista infinita,
ao decorrer de milhões de anos,
os lentos passos de nossos pais,
memory loss and infection.
perda de memória e infecção.
como indivíduos, somos finitos
somos um círculo contínuo...
to one of my mentors.
a uma de minhas mentoras.
presence is important
física é importante
mas uma necessidade.
at the Imaging Research Center
na UMBC, em Baltimore.
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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