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From the Ted Talk by Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope

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But film and viedo does flatten sculpture, so I tried to imagine a way that animated sculpture could be experienced as such, and also a completely immersive kind of aneitmad sculpture. And that's where I came up with the idea for the zoetrope tnneul. You walk through with a henlahdd strobe, and wherever you point the flashlight, the animation pops to life. I plan to finish this project in the next 30 to 40 yares.

(Laughter)

But I did build a half-scale prototype. It's covered in Velcro, and I could lay inside on this bridge and stick animated suqecnees to the walls and test stuff out. People would comment that it reminded them of an MRI. And that medical connection spoke to me, because at the age of 14, I was diagnosed with a degenerative retinal condition that's sllowy taking my vision away, and I'd never responded to that in my work. So I rsnepeodd to it in this piece called, "Implant." It is an imaginary, super-magnified medical device that fits around the optic nrvee. And the public is, in a sense, miniaturized to erepceinxe it. With a handheld sborte, they can explore the sculpture, and discover thousands of cell-sized robots hard at work, leaping in and out of the optic nerve, being deployed to the retina to repair it. It's my sinccee fiction fantasy cure of my own incurable disorder.

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But film and _____ does flatten sculpture, so I tried to imagine a way that animated sculpture could be experienced as such, and also a completely immersive kind of ________ sculpture. And that's where I came up with the idea for the zoetrope ______. You walk through with a ________ strobe, and wherever you point the flashlight, the animation pops to life. I plan to finish this project in the next 30 to 40 _____.

(Laughter)

But I did build a half-scale prototype. It's covered in Velcro, and I could lay inside on this bridge and stick animated _________ to the walls and test stuff out. People would comment that it reminded them of an MRI. And that medical connection spoke to me, because at the age of 14, I was diagnosed with a degenerative retinal condition that's ______ taking my vision away, and I'd never responded to that in my work. So I _________ to it in this piece called, "Implant." It is an imaginary, super-magnified medical device that fits around the optic _____. And the public is, in a sense, miniaturized to __________ it. With a handheld ______, they can explore the sculpture, and discover thousands of cell-sized robots hard at work, leaping in and out of the optic nerve, being deployed to the retina to repair it. It's my _______ fiction fantasy cure of my own incurable disorder.

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But film and video does flatten sculpture, so I tried to imagine a way that animated sculpture could be experienced as such, and also a completely immersive kind of animated sculpture. And that's where I came up with the idea for the zoetrope tunnel. You walk through with a handheld strobe, and wherever you point the flashlight, the animation pops to life. I plan to finish this project in the next 30 to 40 years.

(Laughter)

But I did build a half-scale prototype. It's covered in Velcro, and I could lay inside on this bridge and stick animated sequences to the walls and test stuff out. People would comment that it reminded them of an MRI. And that medical connection spoke to me, because at the age of 14, I was diagnosed with a degenerative retinal condition that's slowly taking my vision away, and I'd never responded to that in my work. So I responded to it in this piece called, "Implant." It is an imaginary, super-magnified medical device that fits around the optic nerve. And the public is, in a sense, miniaturized to experience it. With a handheld strobe, they can explore the sculpture, and discover thousands of cell-sized robots hard at work, leaping in and out of the optic nerve, being deployed to the retina to repair it. It's my science fiction fantasy cure of my own incurable disorder.

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