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Hamann, Sigune (2019) Film-strip, Did you spot the Gorilla? [Art/Design Item]
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| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item |
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| Creators: | Hamann, Sigune |
| Description: | Film-strip, Did you spot the Gorilla? is a series of ten film-strips taken of the popular neuroscience video by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons which tests our ability to notice an unexpected event (the appearance of a gorilla) while focusing on an observational task. The project explores attention and perception and stillness and movement. Hamann's process of ‘tracing’ in film-strips involves using a photographic camera like a movie camera. They exposed a whole roll of 35mm film in a continuous rewinding movement while they were moving (walking or turning). In this particular experiment they rewound the film in front of a screen. Although the images are static, they contain the indexical traces of movement – of the film, of the camera and the person holding it and everything moving within the optical field. Viewers can re-enact the time sequences by moving along the images in installations of large-scale photographs or in the panning movement across the filmstrips in video. Film-strip, Did you spot the Gorilla Three original analogue slide films were exhibited on a lightbox with magnifying glass in the exhibition Did you spot the Gorilla, Barn Galleries, St John, Oxford. |
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Stillness and Movement, Attention, Perception and Cognition |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Camberwell College of Arts Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts |
| Date: | 11 January 2019 |
| Funders: | Oxford University Department Psychology and Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity |
| Related Websites: | http://www.sigune.co.uk/film-strips/did-you-spot-the-gorilla |
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| Related Publications: | Did you spot the Gorilla? Engagement and omission in Sigune Hamann’s Art Work |
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date The Barn Galleries, St John's Oxford January 2019 |
| Material/Media: | Photographic slide films |
| Measurements or Duration of item: | 1 x 50 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2019 13:25 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2019 13:25 |
| Item ID: | 14971 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14971 |
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