Stereoscopic-to-GIF with Lauren Marsden
Stereoscopic-to-GIF with Lauren Marsden
Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Vancouver (generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts) to work with new media artist Lauren Marsden, we talked about the history of GIFs, the infinite gesture, shot stereoscopic (120) analogue film and turned them into GIFs, used video to approximate the same strobe like effect, discussed inter-disciplinary collaborations, the screen versus the projector and how that all (can) fit into/is changing gallery spaces. We worked in studio and outdoors to shoot experiments as well as specific images for Making Coin.
It was this GIF below and this work that caught my eye when first seeking mentorship in the realm of the GIF.
When she’s not making art, teaching media and performance arts at Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr University she’s editing Decoy Magazine,and curating BCC: , a very cool email only subscription-based exhibition of works by digital media artists. For only $3/month “you will receive a newly commissioned artwork to your inbox each month, in the form of a small digital file or web-based work. “ In my search to work with media artists making GIFs she was the only woman I was able to find doing this specific work in Canada. When I later learned that she is a new(ish) mom, I knew I wanted to work with her because of the themes children’s narratives in my work and the “pedagogy of parenting” that affects both my perspective of and ability to create art. What I didn’t know until meeting her was that she is a master clapper!!
This mentorship coupled with the one I did with Scorpion Dagger, spanned the spectrum of what is being done with GIFs, from the strobe aesthetic, analogue to digital, digital collage and frame animation. Works made entirely inside the computer with digitized content sourced online and works created mostly outside of the computer until the moment of “animation”/GIF-generating.
Here’s some stuff I created while with her and with the footage we shot together since my return to Toronto. Thank you Lauren!
