Video: High voltage: photo experiments with electricity and film
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Brooklyn-based artist Phillip Stearns is an art experimenter. He uses chemical solvents and high technologies in his work with equal reverence. Each of his new ideas is a challenge not only to art, but also to science.
So, in one of his latest projects with the complex name “Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Other Vision Technologies, Real or Otherwise Imagined”, Sterns convincingly proves that the camera is not a third-party device, but a real continuation of the human eye.
In this project, Stearns is experimenting with electricity and photographic film. The essence of the experiment boils down to the following: first, the photographer applies a variety of chemicals, such as bleach, vinegar or alcohol, to Fujifilm FP100-45C Instant Color Film, and then acts on it with a discharge of 15,000 volts. “It's amazing,” the author of the project shares his impressions of the experiment, “what we can see as a result of this experiment strikingly resembles a network of blood vessels in the retina of the human eye.” In 2005, Stearns graduated from the University of Denver (Colorado) (University of Colorado at Denver), direction - sound engineering, and two years later - California University of the Arts (California Institution of the Arts).
The artist and photographer currently lives and works in Brooklyn. His works have been repeatedly shown at international exhibitions (The Photographer's Gallery London, Denver Art Museum, etc.), as well as at various art festivals, such as Turku Bienniale, WRO Biennale, Transmediale and others.
Another photographer and artist, Brazilian Lucas Simões, also practices a wide variety of image manipulations in his work. Burning from photography was his latest hobby. “Absence” - this is how the photographer called this series.
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