J R Fuller
First diary entry
An installation by Andrew Bever, James Fuller and Faysal Mroueh.
Mixed media, light dependant resistors, photography, super 8mm film loops, cyanotype prints and sound, controlled by arduino interface.
"A set of three mysterious documents found their way to me today. The nature of these documents leads me to question whether I simply stumbled upon them at random, independent of any pre-determined and intended action of an unknown group or person… or whether they were sent to me specifically, laid out before me in such a way that it would be impossible for me to ignore them, that I was meant to come across them.”
Through torn out diary entries littered amongst the clutter of the room, this installation tells the story of an obsessive eccentric who builds three strange machines based on interpretations of mysterious blueprints and the crazed suicide cult he encounters along the way. One machine is a large tank filled with reflective liquid that is struck with metal hitters, another is a cylindrical structure that when peered into, reveals a beautiful and delicate praxinoscope animation of a boat at sea, and finally, the last a transmission aerial that listens and watches the other two machines in action and relays the information into the sky. Viewers enter and explore the total environment, the workshop-like space (and photographic darkroom) of a character desperately struggling for meaning, their shadows triggering the machines as they are invited to piece together the over-arching narrative through anchoring text and media.
First diary entry
An installation by Andrew Bever, James Fuller and Faysal Mroueh.
Mixed media, light dependant resistors, photography, super 8mm film loops, cyanotype prints and sound, controlled by arduino interface.
"A set of three mysterious documents found their way to me today. The nature of these documents leads me to question whether I simply stumbled upon them at random, independent of any pre-determined and intended action of an unknown group or person… or whether they were sent to me specifically, laid out before me in such a way that it would be impossible for me to ignore them, that I was meant to come across them.”
Through torn out diary entries littered amongst the clutter of the room, this installation tells the story of an obsessive eccentric who builds three strange machines based on interpretations of mysterious blueprints and the crazed suicide cult he encounters along the way. One machine is a large tank filled with reflective liquid that is struck with metal hitters, another is a cylindrical structure that when peered into, reveals a beautiful and delicate praxinoscope animation of a boat at sea, and finally, the last a transmission aerial that listens and watches the other two machines in action and relays the information into the sky. Viewers enter and explore the total environment, the workshop-like space (and photographic darkroom) of a character desperately struggling for meaning, their shadows triggering the machines as they are invited to piece together the over-arching narrative through anchoring text and media.