1992 Simultaneous Disc

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An art project from 1992 (Munich, Germany) with an video update from 1997 (Berlin, Germany), republished 2015 (Guangzhou, P. R. China).

Format: DVD PAL (720 x 576 pixels, 25 fps)

Length: 3:15 min

Orphism

Orphism:从奥菲斯下降,意味着神秘,诗意的,可怕的。一个名字罗伯特Delauney用于他的动态艺术。
这部电影显示了圆周运动的微光不安,在一个不确定的空间滑翔的颜色。色彩,这似乎节奏同步交涉过程中动态反转和非反转色彩对比的不同移动。在这张照片的运动或运动结构只是一种想象的旁观者。大自然的动感节奏的模仿。

Orphism, declined from Orpheus, means mysterious, poetic, hideous. A name Robert Delauney used for his kinetic art.
This movie shows the glimmering uneasiness of circular movements, gliding colors in a undefined space. Simultaneous representations of rhythm of color, which seems to be dynamically moved by the varying of reversed and non-reversed color contrasts. The movement or kinetic structure in this picture is only an imagination by the onlooker. An imitation of the dynamic rhythm of nature.

Several Movements – A Different Point Of View

The line is the trace of the moving point, consequently its product. The complete static stillness of the point changes into the dynamics of the line. The contrast of point and line is the movement and intensity of the line. Contrary to the point, the line is also able to create a square dimension. If you concentrate lines in one single point, a circle starts to grow out of this center, while adding more lines.
The colors produce a pulsating intensity within the circle. Warm colors move forward, cold colors move behind. Vassily Kandinsky said:  The horizontal line is the closest form to the cold infinite movement. – the vertical line is the closest form to the warm infinite movement.

The completed circle shows the moving energy of the hand transformed to a pulsating circle on the sheet. The analogue of this photograph is the real painting. The two sheets start to interact in a virtual space between copy and reality. The same circle moves between the time of its creation. –  the fourth of April in 1992. –  a rainy Sunday in Munich Germany.  – and the time of its physical and copied appearance. – in your computer somewhere in the world. Copies make time reversible. As you can see, there are different kinds of movement.
This work shows the possibility to create movement with static objects.
It is not a copy of a kinetic object, it is a kinetic object!

Voices:

female voice: Apple MacOS 7 MacInTalk 3 Kathy

male voice: Apple MacOS 7 MacInTalk 3 Fred

 

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