Film-strips, V&A (East Asian and Theatre and Performance Departments)

A series of panoramic film-strips of gallery visitors and two designs for film-strip installations for different sites at the V&A developed with curators of the Theatre and Performance and the East Asian Departments.

Hamann’s residency at the V&A and parallel residency at Tokyo Wonder Site involve taking panoramic film-strips in galleries and public spaces. Based at the Digital Programmes department Hamann is working with curators at the East Asian and Theatre and Performance departments funded through CEIR Award by Creative Works London.

The shift in the perception of images in digital environments is mirrored in visitors’ expectations and abilities to process exhibitions. Hamann researches into exhibiting and viewing panoramic seamless images in relation to the scanning movements of our eyes in the perception process at a time when we experience content in visual culture increasingly as fragmented.

As in panoramic scrolls the viewer can experience an unrestricted continuous image plane in film-strip installations and online projects (www.walkalone-neverwalkalone.net), where they choose moments in the narrative and the speed of viewing - a process of reading that becomes increasingly relevant with digital developments.

Roundtable and public gallery presentation.

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