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The most memorable installation at the museum of moving image is perhaps the rotating sculpture Feral Fount, created by Gregory Barsamian in 1996, which used the visual techniques of optical illusion to create a life like animation of a faucet releasing a drop pf water. The drop would then fall and turn into a bomb, which was then caught by a hand and ultimately transformed into a paper airplane. The entire sculpture was composed of many smaller ones; each sculpture differed slightly from the one preceding it as it turned. The smaller sculptures were the “frames” in the optical illusion’s flip book style appearance, with a strobe light going off to make the whole sculpture look as if it was morphing in real life. The feral fount is a creative use of a more low tech of moving image, with its mechanism only constituting of a motor. The illusion of animation is created by the split seconds of darkness before each strobe light flash. The lights flash thirteen times a second, creating a th...
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