_Born 1961
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
_Lives and works in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, France
A Sunny
Summer Sunday Afternoon In Paris - the film, 2000
Interactive data-projection (b/w, no sound)
Courtesy of the artist
The work
A Sunny Summer Sunday Afternoon in Paris – the film shown in <hers>
is part of an
ongoing project that I have been working on since 1997. The basis of this
project forms a series of
photographs that I took in a time span of about 7 minutes on an August
Sunday afternoon (1997) in the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement
in Paris. Since then I have been experimenting with very different media
and different representational forms to re/construct a panorama like park-scene
from the separate images. In every presented form of the work I have also
been experimenting with the position and the perspective of both the spectator
and the audience. (..)
A Sunny Summer Sunday Afternoon in Paris – the film is the most recent
form of the "Photoshopped" panorama and is shown for the first
time in the exhibition <hers>. The panorama is projected life-size
in black/white by a data projector. By means of a simple navigation instrument
the spectator can "scroll" through the panoramic scene. In this
projected scroll-version one can also "penetrate" the image
by zooming in on any given spot. The entire scene is, however, never completely
visible. As with Japanese landscape scrolls, the spectator has to roll
in the same length as s/he is rolling out. The computer programme function
of scrolling probably even has its origines in this way of seeing.
Please also
visit the archive of Basis-Wien at
http://www.basis-wien.at
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