PIKAPIKA

“Le mouvement est l’acte le plus important en ce que toutes les fonctions empruntent son concours pour s’accomplir.” Etienne-Jules Marey

Every since Jean sent me the info about PikaPika, I kept on thinking about perception and visualization of the ephemeral…

PIKAPIKA

PikaPika, the Lightning Doodle Project, is a development—mixing animation, light, and photography—upon earlier experiments. Recall the chronophotographies of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

and Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912.

White Noise/White Light, the interactive sculpture/landscape by MIT Professor J. Meejin Yoon experiments spatially with these notions.

To read: Laurent Mannoni, Etienne-Jules Marey, la mémoire de l’œil (Milan-Paris: Mazzotta - Cinémathèque française, 1999)