spyglass_fumiaki

The device for you and me

Fumiaki Murakami
Kinetic sculpture
1999
Material : Steel, Wood, Motor and Lens
600×6000×450mm

This is first work in my university.
I couldn't realize TV program when I was childhood. For example, Nonfiction, News, Sports, Music, These TV program are made by visual and sound. Normally It seems to describe real and truth. But I couldn't feel this is real world. So I made this media player using physical material to feel more real expression.
This work is made of wood , lens, motor and photo paper.

An audience can look into the photo via the lens. This photo of the panorama turns around continuing by the motor, like conveyer belt. The device keeps playing the photo which is my memory of childhood.
Why we can look real image via this system more than normal photo?
Normally, we use both of eyes when we look the image. And we analyze distance between ourself and the image to use both of eyes, otherwise we can't understand the distance when we use only an eye.
This work is used by this optical trick. When we look into the photo though the lens, we have to use only one eye. In this point, we don't understand there is distance or not. We assume 3D views in the photograph .
Nowadays, There are many kind of virtual realty system in the computer, but I put into the physical material and analogue system without a computer. I try to feel realize more than TV program.

From lens
接眼レンズ

Panorama photo
パノラマ写真