Re: [visual-media:337] Optical Theatre of the Sinners

Hi there  Professor Hall,
Thank you so much for the wonderful zoetrope it arrived in the mail yesterday and what a wonderful surprise it was too I am going to make a bigger one for use in my lens lecture that I give my students each year last year I turned the lecture theater into a camera obscura and after the lecture we made drawings from the projections ........once again thank you for the wonderful gift I will send you photos of the Zoetrope  I build for my lecture
fondest regards
Jonathan R

On 4 June 2011 11:29, Jonathan Rodgers <akacaptainkiwi@gmail.com> wrote:

I applaud you nice work Hanns......I@ Prof George I am very interested in your work with the Zoetrope and your experiments with magnetic reed switches and midi notes also
regards
Jonathan

On 4 June 2011 05:03, <profh@silentmovies.com> wrote:

Congratulations on creating a working modern version of the Optical Theater. My only obvious suggestion is to add a curtain to the side of the screen to hide the keystone edge.

You may be interested in my work with the Zoetrope, which I have taken well beyond the original design in considering the effect of sequential moving images distracting the conscious mind while messages flow to and from the sub-conscious. I have produced a booklet about the history of the Zoetrope and my work and will send you a copy gratis if you are interested.

BTW, one of my experiments uses magnetic reed switches to trigger MIDI notes which are not individual pitches, but .wav files. That way the longer you hover over any one position, the more of the .wav file plays. You might be able to use that idea with your Optical Theater.

Again, great job. Professor George C Hall

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Subject: [visual-media:328] Optical Theatre of the Sinners
From: hans Van Wambeke <hansvanwambeke@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, June 02, 2011 12:08 pm
To: Early Visual Media Archeology <visual-media@googlegroups.com>
Cc: hansandreasr@gmail.com

Dear members,

Last year I graduated at Sint Lukas university college of art and
design as master in audiovisual arts, specialized in experimental film
and media art, with my graduation project "Optical Theater of the
Sinners".
Like the title suggests, this is a performance-installation that is
based on Emile Reynaud's "Theatre Optique" and for which I have build
a working version of his invention.

This performance-Installation was very well received by the graduation
jury and is now selected for the Amsterdam Fringe Festival (from
1/09/'11 until 11/09/'11).

Although it works, I am still optimizing it because there are still
some imperfections that I would like to solve (also with the
performance in Amsterdam in mind), in which help of experts always is
welcome.
So if you have a great knowledge of the "Theatre Optique" itself,
mechanics, lenses (or how to know which one I should use) or something
else you think I might not know, don't hesitate to contact me!

People who are curious or interested can have a look at the temporary
web-site I have build for this project, where you can find some
pictures and registrations of the "Optical Theater of the Sinners"
https://sites.google.com/site/optischtheatervandezondaars/
And please do leave me your honest feedback!

Greetings,

hans Van Wambeke

hansvanwambeke@gmail.com

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Visual Media displays a very wide field of wondrous devices which opens a lot of opportunities for research and discovering in the field of Media Archeology.
To find out, visit the online Archeological Media_Museum of Early Visual Media.
http://www.visual-media.eu
 
All requests are welcome via this group.
 
Thomas Weynants
thomas@visual-media.eu

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Visual Media displays a very wide field of wondrous devices which opens a lot of opportunities for research and discovering in the field of Media Archeology.
To find out, visit the online Archeological Media_Museum of Early Visual Media.
http://www.visual-media.eu
 
All requests are welcome via this group.
 
Thomas Weynants
thomas@visual-media.eu