Flatpack Film Festival Camera Obscura installation

Analogue screens in a cafe window

March 2015

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While we waited for the new Birmingham Camera Obscura to be built, Jenny Duffin and I put together a small obscura installation for the 2015 Flatpack Film Festival. We constructed some small obscuras to hang in the window of a city centre cafe which would show little live movies of the world outside, albeit it upside down.

The Camera Obscura projects:

Jo Gane's obscura research: Helping a fellow artist master the camera obscura as a drawing device. (2019)

Dead Shrines: A camera obscura sculpture in Stirchley Park. (2018)

Flash: A lighting flash as viewed by an insect. (2018)

Developed in Birmingham: A camera obscura studio in Birmingham Museum and a Speculative Cameras workshop. (2017)

Sketching Obscura Cabinet: Commission for the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre. (2016)

Birmingham Obscura R&D Artworks: Four new artworks by four artists for the camera obscura. (2015)

Flatpack Film Festival Camera Obscura installation: Analogue screens in a cafe window (2015)

The Birmingham Camera Obscura: A crowdfunded camera obscura for Birmingham. (2014)

Prototype Birmingham Obscura: We knew nothing about building a camera obscura but we did it anyway. (2014)

Birmingham Obscura project: An ongoing project to develop and build camera obscuras in Birmingham. (2014)

Theatre Obscura: Turning the Old Joint Stock's theatre into a giant camera with Jenny Duffin. (2014)

Rotunda Obscura: Turning a top floor apartment of Birmingham's Rotunda tower into a giant camera with Jenny Duffin. (2014)

Pinhole Camera Workshop for Bham Architecture Festival: A workshop run for a festival where I first worked with Jenny Duffin. (2013)

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