The forgotten art of the zoetrope | Eric Dyer

Prevoditelj: Jelena Grobenski Recezent: Sanda L

A long time ago,

Davnih dana,

I was a professional animator.

bio sam profesionalni animator.

(Music)

(Glazba)

[Eric Dyer]

[Eric Dyer]

[Animator]

[Animator]

[Compositor]

[Stvaratelj]

And at night,

Po noći bih radio

I would make my own experimental films.

vlastite eksperimentalne filmove.

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(Glazba)

And I was spending a lot of time, way too much time, in front of a screen

I tako sam provodio mnogo vremena, zbilja previše vremena, ispred ekrana,

for work that would be presented on a screen,

zbog posla koji će biti prikazan na ekranu

and I had this great need to get my hands back on the work again.

i osjećao sam veliku potrebu da ponovno uposlim svoje ruke.

Now, before "The Simpsons,"

E sad, prije "Simpsona",

before "Gumby,"

prije "Gumbyja",

before "Betty Boop,"

prije "Betty Boop",

before there was such a thing as cinema and television,

prije postojanja kina i televizije,

animation was hugely popular in this form.

ovakva animacija bila je izrazito popularna.

This is a zoetrope.

Ovo je zootrop.

And you spin this drum,

Treba zavrtjeti ovaj bubanj,

and you look through the slits into the inside of the drum,

gledati kroz proreze u njegovu unutrašnjost

and you see the animation pop to life.

i svjedočiti oživljavanju animacije.

This is animation in physical form,

Ovo je animacija u svom fizičkom obliku,

and it's animation I could get my hands on again.

animacija na kojoj sam mogao raditi svojim rukama.

I took these ideas to Denmark.

Ove sam ideje ponio u Dansku.

I went there with my family on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Tamo sam otputovao sa svojom obitelji uz Fullbright stipendiju.

That's my daughter, Mia.

To je moja kći, Mia.

I rode around the city on my bicycle

Vozio sam se biciklom po gradu

and shot all the interesting moving elements of Copenhagen:

i snimio sve zanimljive pokretne elemente Kopenhagena:

the boaters in the canals,

ljude koji plove kanalima,

the colors that explode in spring,

boje koje eksplodiraju u proljeće,

the free-use city bikes,

bicikle na raspolaganju za besplatno korištenje,

love,

ljubav,

textures,

teksture,

the healthy cuisine --

zdravu hranu...

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And I brought all that video back into the physical world

I sav sam taj video materijal vratio u fizički svijet,

by printing it out on these long strips of ink-jet paper

tako što sam ga isprintao na ove duge trake papira

and cutting out the forms.

i izrezao oblike.

Now, I invented my own form of the zoetrope,

Smislio sam vlastitu vrstu zootropa,

which removes the drum

u kojoj nema bubnja,

and replaces the slits with a video camera.

a prorezi su zamijenjeni video kamerom.

And this was very exciting for me,

Za mene je to bilo vrlo uzbudljivo

because it meant that I could make these physical objects,

jer je značilo da mogu stvarati fizičke objekte

and I could make films from those objects.

i iz tih objekata raditi filmove.

That's me riding on my bicycle.

Ovo sam ja u vožnji na svom biciklu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

I made about 25 paper sculptures,

Napravio sam oko 25 skulptura od papira,

each the size of a bicycle wheel.

svaku veličine kotača bicikla.

I brought them into the studio,

Donio sam ih u studio,

spun them

zavrtio ih

and shot them to make the film "Copenhagen Cycles."

i snimio kako bih napravio film "Copenhagen Cycles".

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(Glazba)

This project not only allowed me to get my hands back on the work again

Ovaj mi projekt nije samo pružio priliku da ponovno radim rukama,

but it helped me get my life back.

već mi je i vratio život.

Instead of spending 12, 15 hours a day with my face plastered to a screen,

Umjesto da 12, 15 sati dnevno provodim prikovan uz ekran,

I was having these little adventures with our new family

sa svojom sam novom obitelji odlazio u malene avanture

and shooting video along the way,

i usput snimao video,

and it was kind of a symbiosis of art and life.

što je bila svojevrsna simbioza umjetnosti i života.

And I think that it's no mistake

I mislim da nije slučajno

that zoetrope translates into "wheel of life."

što zootrop u prijevodu znači "kotač života".

(Music)

(Glazba)

But film and video does flatten sculpture,

Film i video, doduše, skulpture čine plosnatima

so I tried to imagine

pa sam pokušao osmisliti način,

a way that animated sculpture could be experienced as such,

kojim bi animirana skulptura mogla biti doživljena kao takva,

and also a completely immersive kind of animated sculpture.

ali i kao potpuno trodimenzionalna animirana skulptura.

And that's where I came up with the idea for the zoetrope tunnel.

I tada sam osmislio ideju zootropa kao tunela.

You walk through with a handheld strobe,

Prolazite tunelom držeći ručnu stroboskopsku svjetiljku

and wherever you point the flashlight,

i gdje god da uperite svjetlost,

the animation pops to life.

animacija oživi.

I plan to finish this project in the next 30 to 40 years.

Planiram dovršiti ovaj projekt u narednih 30 do 40 godina.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But I did build a half-scale prototype.

No, izgradio sam dvostruko manji prototip.

It's covered in Velcro,

Prekriven je trakom na čičak,

and I could lay inside on this bridge

tako da mogu leći u njega na ovaj most,

and stick animated sequences to the walls

lijepiti animirane sekvence po zidovima

and test stuff out.

i isprobati stvar.

People would comment that it reminded them of an MRI.

Ljudi komentiraju da ih podsjeća na MR.

And that medical connection spoke to me,

Takva medicinska asocijacija bila mi je vrlo bliska,

because at the age of 14,

jer, kada sam imao 14 godina,

I was diagnosed with a degenerative retinal condition

dijagnosticirana mi je degenerativna bolest mrežnice,

that's slowly taking my vision away,

koja mi polagano oduzima vid,

and I'd never responded to that in my work.

a na to se nikada nisam osvrnuo kroz svoj rad.

So I responded to it in this piece called, "Implant."

Stoga sam se na to osvrnuo kroz djelo koje se zove "Implantat".

It is an imaginary, super-magnified medical device

Radi se o izmišljenom, jako uvećanom optičkom uređaju,

that fits around the optic nerve.

koji oblaže optički živac.

And the public is, in a sense, miniaturized to experience it.

Publika je, na neki način, umanjena kako bi ga iskusila.

With a handheld strobe,

Ručnom stroboskopskom svjetiljkom

they can explore the sculpture,

oni mogu istraživati skulpturu

and discover thousands of cell-sized robots

i otkriti tisuće robota veličine stanica,

hard at work, leaping in and out of the optic nerve,

koji marljivo rade, uskaču i iskaču iz optičkog živca,

being deployed to the retina

dovedeni do mrežnice

to repair it.

kako bi je popravili.

It's my science fiction fantasy cure of my own incurable disorder.

To je moj znanstveno fantastični lijek za vlastiti neizlječivi poremećaj.

(Machine buzzes)

(Stroj bruji)

Now, in the real-world gene therapy and gene therapy research,

U stvarnom svijetu genske terapije i istraživanja na tom polju,

healthy genes are being administered to unhealthy cells using viruses.

zdravi se geni primjenjuju na nezdrave stanice pomoću virusa.

There's a lot of colorful, fluffy hope in this,

Ovo izaziva puno šarene, paperjaste nade,

and there's also some creepy, threatening idea

ali i određenu jezivu, prijeteću ideju

of viruses maybe becoming an invasive species in your body.

o mogućnosti toga da virusi postanu invazivna vrsta u tijelu.

Vision loss has helped to take me away from the things

Gubitak vida pomogao mi je da se maknem od onih stvari

that disconnect me from the world.

koje me udaljuju od svijeta.

Instead of being sealed off in an automobile,

Umjesto da sam u automobilu, odvojen od drugih,

I ride my bike,

vozim bicikl,

take buses and trains

putujem autobusima i vlakovima

and walk a lot.

i mnogo hodam.

And instead of a visually intensive process in the studio, primarily,

I umjesto primarno vizualno intenzivnog procesa u studiju,

I'm also getting outdoors a lot more

više sam vani

and using more of my senses.

i više koristim svoja osjetila.

This landscape is a couple hours east of San Diego, California.

Ovaj se krajolik nalazi nekoliko sati istočno od San Diega u Kaliforniji.

My brother lives out that way.

Moj brat živi u tom području.

He and I went camping there for four days.

Zajedno smo otišli tamo kampirati na četiri dana.

And I grabbed my camera,

Ja sam zgrabio svoju kameru

and I walked through the canyons.

i hodao kanjonima.

And I tried to imagine and figure out

Pokušavao sam zamisliti i shvatiti

what kind of motion would be present

kakvo je gibanje prisutno

in this place that was so still and so devoid of motion.

na mjestu koje je toliko statično i toliko lišeno pokreta.

I think it's the stillest place I've ever been.

Mislim da je to najmirnije mjesto na kojemu sam ikada bio.

And I realized that it was the movement of my own body through the landscape

Shvatio sam da su kretnje mog vlastitog tijela kroz krajolik

that was creating the animation.

ono što stvara animaciju.

It was the motion of changing perspective.

To je promjena perspektive kroz pokret.

So I created this piece called "Mud Caves" from those photographs.

Iz tih sam fotografija stvorio djelo pod nazivom "Blatne spilje".

It's a multilayered print piece,

Djelo se sastoji od višeslojnih printova

and you can think of it as a zoetrope laid flat.

i moglo bi se opisati kao plosnati zootrop.

It's kind of my western landscape panorama.

To je moja panorama krajolika zapada.

And next to the print piece there's a video monitor

Kraj printa se nalazi video monitor,

that shows the animation hidden within the artwork.

koji prikazuje animaciju sakrivenu unutar djela.

I think one of the best parts about this project for me

Mislim da mi je jedan od najdražih dijelova ovog projekta

was that I got to hang out with my brother a lot,

bilo to što sam se puno družio s bratom,

who lives 2,500 miles away from me.

koji živi 4000 kilometara od mene.

And we would just sit in this seemingly eternal landscape

Samo bismo sjedili u tom naizgled beskrajnom krajoliku,

sculpted by water over millions of years

oblikovanom vodom kroz milijune godina

and talk.

i razgovarali.

We'd talk about our kids growing up

Razgovarali smo o odrastanju naše djece,

and the slowing pace of our parents,

sve sporijem ritmu naših roditelja,

and our dad who's suffering from leukemia, memory loss and infection.

i našem tati koji pati od leukemije, gubitka pamćenja i infekcije.

And it struck me that, as individuals,

Sinulo mi je da smo kao pojedinci

we're finite,

ograničeni,

but as a family,

ali kao obitelj,

we are an ongoing cycle --

mi smo neprekidni ciklus,

a kind of wheel of life.

poput kotača života.

Now, I want to leave you with a tribute to one of my mentors.

Želio bih vas pozdraviti uz posvetu jednoj od mojih mentorica.

She reminds me that physical presence is important

Ona me podsjeća da je fizička prisutnost važna

and that play is not a luxury,

i da igra nije luksuz,

but a necessity.

već nužda.

She's Pixie,

Ona je Pixie,

and she's our family dog.

naš obiteljski pas.

And she loves to jump.

I obožava skakati.

(Dog barking)

(Lavež psa)

(Dog barking and spring boinging)

(Lavež psa i zvuk opruge)

And this is a new kind of zoetrope

Ovo je nova vrsta zootropa

that I developed at the Imaging Research Center

koju sam razvio u Institutu za istraživanje slike

at UMBC in Baltimore.

Sveučilišta Maryland u Baltimoreu.

And I call it a "real-time zoetrope."

Nazvao sam ga "zootrop u stvarnom vremenu".

(Dog barking)

(Lavež psa)

(Dog barking and spring boinging)

(Lavež psa i zvuk opruge)

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)