「Schnellraumseher: Bouncing Ball」

Kenta Suzuki

This work consists of Schnellraumseher which is a media device reproducing "spatial animation" that can be editted spatially and temporally, and a premitive content "Bouncing Ball" having both materiality and nonmateriality.

Schnellraumseher is an extension of the Elektrischer Schnellseher, invented by Ottomar Anschütz in 1886, before the birth of the film. By extending the object and the space into a three-dimension, it is possible to make "spatial animation". By adjusting to the light control for each object and rotation control of the objects, the time and space position for reproducing the image can be editted.

Existing three-dimensional animation devices have some expressive remitations: the first is that the multiple animation should be reproduced at the same time, the second is that the determined frame order can be only played and the third is that it can only reproduce animation in the divided space of the media device. Due to these constraints, the reproduced object is a three-dimensional object, but the methods of reproduction and appreciation are two-dimensional.

I created this media device with the intention to break the limits of it. Schnellraumseher is a term in which raum (space) is inserted into the words shnell (fast) and seher (see). When the space in which the animation is born in the culture of the image is extended to the three dimension, the anime creator must reproduce animation in a completely different way. From the point of view of appreciation, the concept of front is no longer available, allowing viewing from 360 °.

Bouncing Ball is a very premitive animation in the expression of anime. It is a unique animation of a non-physical variant of Squash and Stretch while doing a physical movement of a falling motion. What kind of changes does it make in our society when the content, which is born of a culture separated from the physical constraints and has a combination of materiality and nonmateriality, becomes "spacial animation"?

Supported by：

Kuma Foundation

DMM.make AKIBA

University of Tsukuba openfab Sobo

2018.03

[2018.3.27] KUMA EXHIBITION 2018にて展示しました

Schnellraumseher: Bouncing Ball