Simon Warner : Photographer
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- Impressions Gallery – Camera Obscura – Sunday 8 August As part of Impressions' third anniversary birthday party, from 1 - 4pm my walk-in camera obscura will be trained on City Hall from the gallery windows.
- V & A Friday Late (Shadow Catchers) 29 October 2010, 6.30 - 9.30pm Workshop/Performance/Demonstration of photo-silhouette techniques, in celebration of new exhibition devoted to cameraless photography
- Magic Lantern Show & Workshop Florence Nightingale Museum, St Thomas's Hospital, London. Bank Holiday Monday 30 August
- Arts of Place – SEVEN STREAMS Public Art commission to produce temporary sited work celebrating Bradford's City Park
- Pennine Prospects – INSPIRED BY LANDSCAPE Participatory film & photography project exploring the Watershed Landscapes of the South Pennines, 2012-13
- Harewood House – ARCHERY BORDER 40-minute film of Harewood's sub-tropical Archery Border, viewed in close-up as though by a meandering insect
- Florence Nightingale Museum – MAGIC IN THE DARK A Victorian photography project with 2 schools in Hampshire and Derbyshire associated with Florence Nightingale's two family homes at Lea Hurst and Embley
- Isolating V5 – Towards a Human Zoetrope A paper delivered at the one-day conference 'Old Media New Work', Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster 2 May. http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2010/old-medianew-work-speakers
- TRANSPORTED Artist in residence on No. 36 Bus. A continuing project exploring the layers of history uncovered by a bus journey from Leeds to Harewood and beyond
- Lavaterian silhouettes at V&A A Renaissance Masked Ball 29 January 2010, curated by The Last Tuesday Society
Isolating V5 – Towards a Human Zoetrope
15 April 2010
A paper delivered at the one-day conference 'Old Media New Work', Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster 2 May. http://instituteformodern.co.uk/2010/old-medianew-work-speakers
Using slides, live video and dramatic dialogue I attempt an overview of the Zoetrope phenomenon, detailing its origins in scientific discourse, its commodification as an optical toy, and the longevity of its influence from late-19th century motion studies to early 21st century artist’s film. Touching briefly on the neurological functions underpinning what we erroneously refer to as ‘persistence of vision’, I finally describe my own unrealized vision of a living zoetrope using the human figure.