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Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with a new 3D platform designed at VIVO Media Arts Centre by artist Brady Marks. Marks – sonic designer, programmer, and innovator, with degrees in Computer Science and Interactive Arts and Technology – designed the “POV”: Persistence-Of-Vision Volumetric Display.
“Not since the 19th century experiments with the Zoetrope[1] have artists advanced animated 3D imagery,” says Marks, who is scathingly dismissive of today’s 3D cinema which she suggests “has largely failed to add a significant point of view. Now, at VIVO, we have built a pure 3D display that builds on that early legacy of the Zoetrope.”
Also known as a “magic lantern”, the Zoetrope is a metal cylinder with evenly spaced vertical slits cut into it. A series of still images recording the movement of an animal, for instance, lines the inside of the drum. When the cylinder, mounted on a spindle, is spun, the illusion of animated movement is created for the viewer.
Like the Zoetrope, VIVO’s POV is also cylindrical. A vertical bank of LEDs replace photographs, and an electric motor spins the POV at the high speeds necessary to create the illusion of 3D. Unlike the Zoetrope, the image can be viewed from all sides. As the viewer walks around the cylinder they will experience all aspects of the 3D image.
Marks and four other artists – Jesse Scott, Matt Parker, and collaborators Dan Leonard and Ashlee Luk – have been commissioned by VIVO to create new artworks for the inaugural exhibition of this experimental technology.
Group tours of this exhibition are welcome, please book in advance through education@vivomediaarts.com
Free event
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***Please note that this exhibition contains flickering lights***
[1] Étienne-Jules Mare, Sculptures of birds in flight mounted in a microscope, 1887.
Points of Vision >> Beyond the 2nd Dimension and the POV project have been generously supported by a BC Arts Council Innovations Grant.
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VIVO is located in the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples in a warehouse space at 2625 Kaslo Street south of East Broadway at the end of E 10th. Transit line 9 stops at Kaslo Street on Broadway. From the bus stop, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight decline. The closest skytrain station is Renfrew Station, which is three blocks south-east of VIVO and has an elevator. From there, the path is paved, curbless, and on a slight incline. There is parking available at VIVO, including wheelchair access parking. There is a bike rack at the entrance. The front entrance leads indoors to a set of 7 stairs to the lobby.
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours or events to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
There are two all-gender washrooms. One has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The other is a single room with a urinal and is wheelchair accessible: the door is 33 inches wide and inward swinging, without automation. The toilet has 11 inch clearance on the left side and a handrail.
To reach the bathrooms from the studio, exit through the double doors and proceed straight through the lobby and down the hall . Turn left, and the two bathrooms will be on your right side. The closest one has a stall and is not wheelchair accessible. The far bathroom is accessible.