Do the Locomotion

“Viewed in this perspective, the cinema is objectivity in time.” (André Bazin) The exhibition brings together works developed during the course with the same name. We retraced the steps before the invention of cinematography, and through that looked at for connections between science and film. Furthermore, we were interested in looking at artistic strategies and methods such as copying, replicating, repeating, imitating in the context of cross-disciplinary practices. Devices such as the thaumatrope, the phenakistoscope, the zoetrope, the praxinoscope, the flipbook, ect. were invented in parallel, without or with knowledge of each other. What they had in common, however, was the scientific dream of capturing the ephemeral moments of reality as they are. In first semester we set out in search of the fleeting phenomena that surround us and worked on a detailed reproduction of one of these instruments. In second semester we worked on the detailed analysis and reproduction of an existing work of art that depicts ephemeral phenomena.