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time and motion study

John Tonkin
2006

'time and motion study' uses contemporary technology to further investigate the time and motion studies of 1800’s scientist/inventors such as Marey and Muybridge and the later technologies of strobe photography and video effects. The users’ image in front of a camera is captured as a sequence of frames positioned along a timeline in three dimensional space. Only those parts of the image that are moving are rendered visible. The user is able to zoom in and out and to navigate forward and backwards through time. The work is formed through the accumulated actions of its users. The playful gestures of the audience build an archive of animated self portraits, like the pages of a flip book, a series of ghostly fragments echoing through time.

Tonkin 'time and motion study' 2008, – via Vimeo 
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