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Studio research has led me to hypothesize a cartographic link between the drawn and the sculptural, which I am exploring with a series of exhibitions. The investigation will be realized via the presentation of a range of spatial and temporal sequential imagery generated through a combination of visualization technologies and reinterpreted through the hand using a variation of drawing and sculptural processes.
The initial trigger for this investigation was shortly after reading an article by Joseph and Barbra Anderson titled “The myth of persistence of vision, revisited” [1] dispelling early attempts to account for motion in film and the more recent discoveries of apparent motion. After digitally manipulating and drawing sequential imagery I began to question how this new theory of the motion picture could go beyond two-dimensional illusory space when the visual narrative structures are spatially and temporally tampered with. These current works are inspired by the Borgesian notion of the one to one map [2].
Commencing as simulation and concluding with the hand crafted, a synthetic reality is mapped into the tangible drawn world.
These exhibitions are the latest investigative drawings that form part of my Masters by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne). The findings form an ongoing integration within curriculum content delivered to Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment students with majors in Animation and Games Design. This work is an extension of my experience as a 3D visualization Artist and Production efforts in the film and television industry in Australia and Canada.
The resulting exhibitions will hopefully facilitate a contribution to the dialogue of contemporary drawing and its relationship to motion graphics and the sculptural form. .
- Simon Finn (Jan, 2011).
[1] "The Myth of Persistence of Vision Revisited," Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Spring 1993): 3-12.
[2] Jorge Luis Borges, “On Exactitude in Science” (Del rigor en la ciencia) (1946).
