{"id":1001,"date":"2013-03-26T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/see-banff\/"},"modified":"2021-01-02T22:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T06:54:33","slug":"see-banff","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/see-banff\/","title":{"rendered":"SEE BANFF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 701px;\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banff_kinetoscope.jpg\" alt=\"banff_kinetoscope.jpg\" \/>SEE BANFF! is an interactive stereoscopic installation. It bears a strong &#8211; and intentional &#8211; resemblance to an Edison kinetoscope, which made its public debut in 1894, a century before contemporary artist Naimark revisited it using late 20th century technologies. The kinetoscope achieved instant popularity, but was short-lived. One and a half years later, in December 1895, the Lumiere brothers publicly exhibited projected film, and cinema as we know it was born. The kinetoscope became a transitional symbol during a turbulent era in the media arts.<\/p>\n<p>Physically, SEE BANFF! is a self-contained unit about the size of a podium, made out of walnut and brass, with a viewing hood on top and a crank on the side, as well as a selector for choosing one of the silent &#8220;views.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These views were filmed around Banff and rural Alberta in autumn 1993. They were recorded with two stop-frame 16mm film cameras mounted on a &#8220;super jogger&#8221; baby carriage. Stereoscopic recording was either triggered by an intervalometer (for timelapse) or by an encoder on one of the carriage wheels (for dollies and moviemaps). Since the filming was &#8220;stop-frame&#8221; (rather than &#8220;real-time&#8221;), time and space appear compressed.<\/p>\n<p>The imagery is part of an investigation of the role of media and its relationship to landscape, tourism, and growth. Recordings were made dollying along waterfalls, glaciers, mountains, and farmland; moviemapping up and down popular natural trails; and timelapsing tourists. It is related to precursors such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/aspen-movie-map\/\"><em>Aspen Movie Map<\/em><\/a>, 1978-80, which Naimark worked on as a student at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>SEE BANFF! looks and feel like a real kinetoscope. Turning the crank allows the user to browse back and forth, to &#8220;move through,&#8221; the material. By revisiting or &#8220;remediating&#8221; (to use Bolter and Grusin&#8217;s term) an antique and obsolete technology using contemporary technological means, SEE BANFF can be seen as a &#8220;media-archaeological&#8221; investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banff_stereogram.jpg\" alt=\"banff_stereogram.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6M8xuH-uFU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nSource :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naimark.net\/projects\/banff.html\">http:\/\/www.naimark.net\/projects\/banff.html<\/a><br \/>\nAspen Movie Map:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naimark.net\/projects\/aspen.html\">http:\/\/www.naimark.net\/projects\/aspen.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":4316,"template":"","artist":[31],"streams":[17],"keywords":[6210,5345,2831,4475,4203,4474,2099,2124],"decade":[5543],"media":[],"class_list":["post-1001","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-michael-naimark","streams-simulations-and-simulacra","keywords-edison","keywords-kinetoscope","keywords-media-archaeology","keywords-michael-naimark","keywords-remediation","keywords-see-banff","keywords-virtual-reality","keywords-vr","decade-1990s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/1001\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}