“We are watching 18 screens showing high-definition images captured by nine cameras. Each camera was set at a different angle, and many were set at different exposures. In some cases, the images were filmed a few seconds apart, so the viewer is looking, simultaneously, at two different points in time. The result is a moving collage, a sight that has never quite been seen before.”
British artist David Hockney uses cameras, screens and computer software in an artistic process that he compares to drawing. With his multiscreen film collages he seeks to approach the actual experience of seeing, while critiquing the “one-camera view of the world.” Current technology—that was not yet available in the 1980s when Hockney first attempted “multiple-viewpoint” pieces—is now allowing him to experiment with this novel artistic vehicle.
(Via AL Daily)
