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John Chiara, Camera Obscura, Short Film

Obscura and VJ's

A key pioneer in the mid-1960s was Scottish artist Mark Boyle, who died earlier this year. On December 23rd 1966, Boyle and his wife Joan Hills performed "Son et Lumiere for Earth, Air, Fire and Water" at London's fashionable UFO Club. Boyle used powerful Aldis projectors to magnify and project chemical reactions — the death throes of insects and the shapes made by body fluids like semen and vomit. He was influenced by the LSD-fuelled visuals of Jo Cannon, often called "the fifth member of Pink Floyd",

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By means of the contemporary technology, Electronic Shadow uses contemporary high tech in order to give back to image its original context, by extracting it from its own frame or screen to make it habitable.
Camera Obscura is an interactive installation showing a little habitation room with a low interactive table at the centre of it. All the walls tend to change on the thread of images, passing from contemporary architectural habitats to natural environments, between dream and reality. Everything is controlled by an intuitive and sensorial interface by means of the low little table. It proposes a new approach to poetic domotics in which domestic space, image and light blend to offer a new vision because of the continually changing space, following the mood of its own tenant.

willett and pattisons amazing portable camera obscura

Lightbox Science gallery #3

LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international acclaim received in its phenomenal inaugural show. Bigger, better and raising the bar,

Lightbox Science gallery #2

LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international acclaim received in its phenomenal inaugural show. Bigger, better and raising the bar, LIGHTWAVE 2009 promises to mesmerize audiences not only within the Science Gallery, but to captivate on-lookers city wide as interactive experiences, roving installations and participatory workshops flood the creative, cultural quarters of Dublin.

Lightbox Science gallery #1

The LIGHTBOX project is an environment created using a combination of camera obscura, and digital technology. By standing inside LIGHTBOX a person will be surrounded by images of the Aurora Australis taken from data, video and photographs as it is right now at Scott Base in Antarctica.

In partnership with NIWA (the New Zealand Government’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research) LIGHTBOX’s Visual and scientific data will be streamed from the New Zealand Government’s ‘AntarcticaNZ’ Scott Base on Ross Island. The activity of the Aurora Austarls at Scott Base will relayed to the Science Gallery at Trinity College and the projections will respond in real time to changing Aurora conditions in the Antarctic. As well as imagery created by Anthony Powell who is a photographer and Satellite Communications Technician working in Antarctica at McMurdo Station

Vermeers Perspective

De Radio Astronomica

solar microscope

solar projection

Danti was born in Perugia to a family rich in artists and scientists. As a boy he learned the rudiments of painting and architecture from his father Giulio, an architect and engineer who studied under Antonio da Sangallo, and his aunt Teodora, who was said to have studied under the painter Perugino and also wrote a commentary on Euclid. His older brother Vincenzo Danti would become one of the leading court sculptors of late-sixteenth-century Florence, while his younger brother Girolamo (1547-1580) would become a local Perugian painter of little fame.

Caravaggio

Caravaggio

obscura and painting

Ibn al Haythem

Ibn al-Haytham depicted in an Iraqi 10,000-dinar note.

Ibn al-Haytham is regarded as the "father of modern optics"^[9] for his influential Book of Optics experiments on optics, including experiments on lenses, mirrors, refraction, reflection, and the dispersion of light into its constituent colours.^[10] (written while he was under house arrest), which correctly explained and proved the modern intromission theory of vision.

Construction Blueprints

With some help from our friends in the Spatial Design department we have constructed a design plan for the Lightbox structure.

Lightbox project #3

LIghtbox project #2

Lightbox project #1

deep south aurora australis

Photographs from Stephen Voss. I used to visit my grandmother near this spot and see these strange images in the sky.

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from the film " Shadow of the House".

Abelardo Morell travels the world and converts full-size rooms (some spare, some ornately rococo) into immense camera obscura devices. He brings the outside in through a tiny pin-hole, and by the alchemy of optics, the outside is projected quite naturally upside down superimposing and hugging the surfaces of everything in the room. Then, he photographs the resulting “installation” with his 8 x 10 view camera and enlarges the prints to mural size.

some kind of genius!

abelardo morell

Dark Chambers

Interior Screens

Interior views, with external test objects being transformed when viewed from within.

These are in the National University of Ireland in Galway. It was used for sketching; the tracing paper was placed on the missing glass inside the folding hood, and a 45° mirror inside the box reflected the image onto the paper.

Vermeers Camera

I Just read Vermeer's Camera which got me thinking a bit....
For more than a hundred years it has been suggested that the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632—1675) used the camera obscura. The camera obscura was the predecessor of the photographic camera. It is a simple optical device incorporating a pinhole or lens, with which an image of a scene can be projected onto a screen. The image can then be traced and copied. Art historians have come to accept the idea that Vermeer might have been inspired by such images, or might have used the camera occasionally. Vermeer’s Camera proposes, controversially, that the painter’s use of optical aids was much more extensive than this.

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The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica (and other land masses in the Southern Ocean) claimed by New Zealand. It is defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south. It is nearly identical in size to Sweden and constitutes the bulk of the Realm of New Zealand. The Dependency takes its name from Sir James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea.

did some one forget to turn out the lights?

Webcams

SCOTT BASE WEBCAMS The first image is sent from a video camera situated at Scott Base. The camera is located in the Hillary Field Centre briefing room, looking towards the vehicle hitching rail and the Pressure Ridges on the Ross Ice Shelf. The second webcam is stituated at the Arrival Heights Research Laboratory.

Auroral activity

This plot shows the current extent and position of the auroral oval in the southern hemisphere, extrapolated from measurements taken during the most recent polar pass of the NOAA POES satellite.

The red arrow in the plot, that looks like a clock hand, points toward the noon meridian.