Research in the Lens-Based programme is in association with the research programme (lectoraat) Communication in a Digital Age of the Piet Zwart Institute. Current research in the programme focusses on the development of practice-led research projects.
These research projects may take several forms:
- Commissioned projects in partnership with other media institutions.
- Studio based practice-led research on agreed topics with multiple outcomes.
- Critical essays and articles.
Drawing in Time: A practice-based research project
Principle researcher: Simon Pummell
Drawing in Time: A practice-based research project resulting in a series of moving image gallery installations
An ongoing series of moving image installations: Drawings in Time. This project loops together digital animation processes with the manual, gestural, and analogue techniques of traditional figure drawing to develop new moving-image forms. The resulting looped moving image sequences are designed to be viewed in a gallery context: as drawings that develop over time. The methods by which they are created are part of a sustained research project, into the extension of the grammars and procedures of drawing into digital moving images, initiated with a Harvard Film Study Centre Fellowship 2008-2009.
Coding and digital toolbuilding: Timo Klok
Timo Klok is developing a tool which ‘allows control over the speed of moving images through an interface that employs the gestural resources of drawing: in particular the speed of a point drawn across a canvas… A tool that allows the subtle control of variable speed of moving image play-out through the kinetics of controlled gesture, Time Re-Draw Tool is intended to be a genuine extension of the basic vocabulary of drawing into a time-based medium.’
