Visitors to the space were greeted with a rubber hole placed in the middle of the floor and the above animation, looped & projected onto a large screen suspended in front of the back wall. Though the video has the superficial look of TV static, it is in fact a 3D animation with each frame encoded into individual Random Dot Stereograms ('Magic Eye' Patterns). Stereoscopic viewing reveals a point of view shot: the viewer walks into the space, accidentally falls down the rubber hole, shakes his head and repeats the action over and over again. The after-image left on the retina after viewing these black and white flickering dots in an unlit space is such that, even those that weren't able to actually 'view' the animation were left with a strange effect - blurry or 'spotted' vision, the cartoon language for a knock on the head. As if the viewer had in fact transcended real space and fallen down the rubber 'virtual' hole.
Christopher Haworth 2009
Added: March 13, 2009 Runtime: 00:38 Plays: 106 Comments: 0
Visitors to the space were greeted with a rubber hole placed in the middle of the floor and the above animation, looped & projected onto a large screen suspended in front of the back wall. Though the video has the superficial look of TV static, it is in fact a 3D animation with each frame encoded into individual Random Dot Stereograms ('Magic Eye' Patterns). Stereoscopic viewing reveals a point of view shot: the viewer walks into the space, accidentally falls down the rubber hole, shakes his head and repeats the action over and over again. The after-image left on the retina after viewing these black and white flickering dots in an unlit space is such that, even those that weren't able to actually 'view' the animation were left with a strange effect - blurry or 'spotted' vision, the cartoon language for a knock on the head. As if the viewer had in fact transcended real space and fallen down the rubber 'virtual' hole.
Christopher Haworth 2009