C for CAMERA OBSCURA (REVERSED)

This essay discusses Marcel Duchamp’s Étantdonnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gazd’éclairage … (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas …), or Given as a camera obscura. It focuses not on the brightly lit assemblage, but on the door that separates it from the viewer and the dark space immediately in front of it, the space outside Given. Through a methodology of ‘redrawing’ Given, it argues the image making abilities of the piece, defines this boundary between its interior and exterior as a ‘Looking Door’,and suggests that the hidden significance of Given might lie not behind the door, but in front of it

Hangil Book Hall and Camera Obscura

In fall of 2001, SHoP Architects received the commission for a building for the Heyri Art Valley master plan currently being executed one hour north of Seoul, South Korea in the city of Paju in the Province of Kyong-gi Do. The project is being planned by M.A.R.U. (Metropolitan Architecture Research Unit), a local firm, on land comprised of six hills and valleys with a change in elevation of 94 meters

Determination of Turning Characteristics of an Airship by Means of a Camera Obscura

This investigation was carried out by the National Advisory Committee at Langley Field for the purpose of determining the adaptability of the camera obscura to the securing of turning characteristics of airships, and also of obtaining some of those characteristics of the C-7 airship. The method consisted in flying the airship in circling flight over a camera obscura and photographing it at known time intervals. The results show that the method used is highly satisfactory and that for the particular maneuver employed the turning diameter is 1,240 feet, corresponding to a turning coefficient of 6.4, and that the position of zero angle of yaw is at the nose of the airship

Shades

One of the facets influenced most by subjective reality is in the viewing of the aesthetic. shades is intended as a means of evoking the viewers\u27 sense of beauty, aesthetic pleasure to the mind . This is accomplished by techniques such as pinhole photography and camera obscura

A Quick Camera Obscura

Take a Pringles potato chip can and a Planters potato chip can. Poke a hole in the bottom of each

Scientific Instruments and Epistemology Engines

This article outlines the gradually changing attitude towards instruments and materials in the philosophy and historiography of science and confronts contemporary revaluations of the material culture of science with Hans-Jörg Rhein- berger's concept of an experimental system and Don Ihde's notion of an epistemology engine