Museum of the Moving Image

One thing that was inspiring to me in the Museum of the Moving Image was the Feral Fount created in 1996 by Gregory Barsamian. Feral Fount is made up of 97 small, different sculptures each attached to a rotating armature. The armature spins in motion in a constant speed, and there is also a strobe light shining onto the armature at a rate of speed of 13 times per second. When the strobe light shines on the sculptures, it looks as if the sculptures on the armature had created a moving image of faucet turning into a bomb through a grasp of a hand, then into a mail and a paper airplane, then landing in a dishpan. However when the strobe light stops shining on the sculptures, the viewers can no longer see the moving image but the spinning of the armature with different sculptures on it. This piece of work relates to the idea of “Fake” as it is deceiving the viewers into thinking that they were viewing a moving sculpture, nevertheless it is not the case as when the strobe light stops shining on the armature they can see that the piece of work is essentially a set of sculptures being put in motion. I thought that this piece of work was intriguing as it is a visual illusion which is made up of real objects, but creates an artificial moving image which deceives the audiences’ perspectives.
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