THE REINTERPRETATION OF PAST VISUAL EFFECTS
  • Unfolding images, from fans to animations

Apart from anamorphoses, other objects could take on several meanings by changing shapes: such were fans, which had a 'language' attached to them according to their positions, suggesting that 'unfolding' can act as a metaphor for the process of meaning-making.  

These effects are now simulated in electronic media. See the exhibition 'Unfolding Pictures' at the Royal Collection, and the cd-rom Georgian Cities.

The website of the Royal Collection e-Gallery online / Online exhibitions/ Unfolding Pictures.
The language of the fan: Georgian Cities (link to the fan section: from the pages on the bedroom in N°1, Royal Crescent, Bath)
  • The theory of the relationship between old and new media
    • the mathematical imagination as a link between past and present optical effects
    • the whole series of optical effects between Renaissance anamorphoses and present-day digital images: Escher's impossible forms, holograms...
 see Leonardo , Vol. 25 (1992) available in JSTOR (a Paris-Sorbonne subscription- see previous lessons)