From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Tue May 01 2007 - 16:56:39 PDT
have you read the book FLICKERS OF THE DREAMMACHINE by P. Cecil,
Codex publishing?
that is quite interesting.
regarding people continuing the experiments, perhaps the work of
those WSB / Gysin influenced artists / industrial musicians such as
Throbbing Gristle & Cabaret Voltaire. See The Industrial Culture
Handbook (Re/Search) and The Wreckers Of Civiiztion by Simon Ford
(Black Dog Press) and my book Naked Lens (can I push myself any
more....???)
also the work of Raymond S Harmon who uses light and colour and sound
to effect the viewer on an unconscious level (http://
www.frugalfun.com/transcendental-territories.html)
I gave a lecture on WSB and GYSIN last week in Sydney that discussed
some of this stuff (And of course there's this new movie out 23..... )
jack
On 2 May 2007, at 08:33, Adam Trowbridge wrote:
> Tony,
>
> I've been researching flicker, both your film The Flicker and
> Sommervile/Gysin's Dream Machine, as they relate to W. Grey
> Walter's The Living Brain and later developments. I've had
> difficulty finding anyone who "picked up the torch" from the 60s
> flicker experiments, specifically artwork intended to directly
> stimulate the brain, without conscious interpretation, using
> flickering light. In the science field, I found a book from 1977,
> Visually Evoked Potentials in Man, that goes deeper into
> possibilities but I haven't had any luck turning up continuation of
> art research into the subject. Today all that seems to remain are
> light/sound biofeedback devices.
> I'm writing to you, and the list, to see if you have, or anyone
> else has, any names or works to share that continue the research
> that came from the early flicker work. I think art work that takes
> neurological research into account is going to move into
> prominence, especially since we are on the cusp of readily
> available, EEG-based game control systems and toys*. I hope that
> the potential of flicker-based work, as direct stimulation and not
> an aesthetic technique, is realized further.
>
> Thanks for anything you can share.
>
> -adam
>
>
> * see
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/04/30/mind.reading.toys.ap/
> index.html
> http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=551
> http://www.smartbraingames.com/
>
>
> Adam Trowbridge
> www.atrowbri.com
> email suppressed
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Tony Conrad wrote:
>
> Hi Lisa-------
>
> Dark frame: Put on lens cap
> Light frame: Shoot white paper out of focus, exposed +2 stops
>
> ----------t0ny
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Lisa Oppenheim <email suppressed>:
>
>> Dear Frameworkers-
>> I am just wondering what was the technique used for making
>> "Flicker" and other such B&W filcker films... Were black frames drawn
>> directly on clear leader?
>> Thanks!
>> Lisa Oppenheim
>>
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