Commissioned by the Tate Britain and in honour of the eccentric man who proved that ‘horses can fly’, Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille with Nexus productions have created an iPhone app utilizing Muybridge’s technique to give iPhone users the chance to animate their own Muybridge-esque sequences, using custom-built ‘Muybridgizer’ app. Using the original principle of taking a sequence of still shots (in Muybridge’s time, by setting up a bank of cameras along a racetrack which were triggered by a galloping horse) the iPhone camera will capture a sequence of images which the app then allows you to manipulate frame by frame, treating the images so they are in a similar vintage style to Muybridge’s work and animating them. Sequences can then be shared by email or on Flickr, with any images uploaded to Flickr being featured on the exhibition’s microsite.
Of course, this is a must see exhibition also.
Project Page
muybridgizer.tate.org.uk
Eadweard Muybridge (www Tate)
Tate Britain 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011
British born artist and programmer Theo Watson met motion graphics director Emily Gobeille while attending the design and technology MFA program at Parsons. They went on to collaborate across a number of projects including RISE AND FALL, an interactive animated story, which users are able to control through the use of a real world object, in this case a magazine cover. Theo has been influential in the development of openFrameworks, which collaborated on the ground-breaking EyeWriter initiative. Emily has been working as a designer for the past nine years. Working in motion graphics, concept development, interaction design and user interaction, her experience in design spans many disciplines, including web, print, TV, wireless platforms and installations. Clients include U2, Onitsuka Tiger and Nickelodeon to name a few.
Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: Free
Developer: Tate
See also Zoetrope [#iPhone] by Memo Akten.
