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Image Fulgurator

Image Fulgurator

I was a jury member for the Interactive Arts Prize at Ars Electronica in 2008 and this is the project we gave the main prize - a Golden Nica. It's called the Image Fulgurator and it's by Julius Von Bismarck. It's so simple it's annoying - a camera which projects images rather than captures them. The Fulgurator is a modified 35mm reflex camera with a flash light behind where the film normally goes. The film itself is replaced with a transparency. And the whole thing is controlled by a flash slave unit. When the slave detects a flash, it fires off its own flash unit, thus momentarily projecting the slide. So, if for example a Fulgurator photographer were at a Tony Blair press conference, he or she could project the words 'war criminal' onto Tony's head, but only for the instant when another photgraphers flash fires. So all the photos taken by other photographers would have 'war criminal' stamped across Tony.... but nobody in the room at the time would be aware of it. Confused? Go to the website and find out more...

\http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/fulgurator/

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ReBlogged by andycameron on Jun 25, 2008 at 09:50 AM Posted by andycameron on Jun 25, 2008 at 09:50 AM

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