Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne

Using a custom developed motion control system, a video camera is rotated around its optical axis at a constant speed of exactly one pixel per frame. Static objects are transposed into a rapid series of chronological cross sections like the instantaneous transition from future to past. While moving objects are rendered as much by their temporal as their spatial forms, smeared across time and caught in an extruded present.


Artist
Daniel Crooks
Practicing across a range of media including digital video, photography and installation, Daniel Crooks’ complex and beautiful time structures reveal a sensibility seemingly at odds with the ordinariness of the subject matter. His digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it. His numerous awards include the 2001 City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and an Australian Short Film Award at the 1996 Sydney International Film Festival.