10 Days and Nights - 10 suspended perspex lenses with back-projected video
The Mediums Glasses I & II - Photographs printed onto old pairs of glasses using traditional darkroom techniques
I was inspired to produce a series of works based on nineteenth century occult and pseudo-scientific documentary photography. During the nineteenth century it was believed that camera technology could capture the spirit world and photographs appearing to show ghosts and a range of occult phenomena were often used as "evidence" for a world that lay beyond what we could see.
Laura Marker
Laura Marker - artist
The Half-Known Life - multimedia collage work/static projection and external glass objects.
The "eighteenth century notion of the mechanical being as a representation of humanity lacking in freedom, self-will, and originality is one of the most powerful and enduring legacies of the late eighteenth century" (Minsoo Kang Sublime dreams of living machines).
