In creating the Slow GIF Movement, Armstrong has been supported by digital commissioning and development agency The Space and arts commissioning programme Unlimited. ‘ Reflections (nature)’: made using microscope footage of the natural and built environment, for example drops of water.Ī brief, created in consultation with disabled internet users, that invites others to create their own Slow GIFs, in contribution to the movement.Ģ7 July – 22 Sept 2019: The Big Screen, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth.Ģ7 July - : in Portsmouth Libraries and at Aspex Gallery: Rhiannon will be artist in residence with ‘Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin’.Ģ3 – 25 August 2019 Victorious Festival, Portsmouth: ‘Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin’.ġ2-25 October 2019: Full collection at Brighton Digital Festival (exact dates tbc). ‘ Hearts-R-Us (mirror neuron)’: drawn from research into mirror neurons, these GIFs are designed to connect viewers to our bodies using the same mechanism whereby seeing a yawn makes us yawn. Subject of a major participatory public art project with Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth, taking place in libraries in the city and on large screens in Guildhall Square and at Victorious Festival. ‘ Poems Made from Words Found in the Bin’: made from discarded documents and animated into metronomes at 60bpm or less (the average heart rate). ‘ Kaleidoscope Landscapes for Better Breathing’: landscape footage shot through a kaleidoscope, breathe along to these for a reduced heart rate. Slow GIFs made by the artist and hosted on GIPHY including: The project is also currently seeking funding for a clinical trial. Armstrong and the team plan to adapt the Kaleidoscope Landscapes for Better Breathing (see below) into an exercise programme that patients can undertake from their hospital bed. The Slow GIF Movement is offered as a public health intervention in the online world: the act of making and sharing them becomes an intervention in the environment an act of solidarity with disabled people and others who find hostility in online social space, and a way to disseminate a collection of art works.Īrmstrong is also working with the heart failure team at Saint George’s Hospital, to develop the GIFs as a form of therapy for heart failure patients, to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety and breathlessness that can often lead to hospital readmission. The Slow GIF Movement seeks to rectify that with the creation of calming, gently looping GIFs and an invitation to others to take up the cause. Rhiannon Armstrong, supported by The Space and Unlimited, is pleased to announce the launch of The Slow GIF Movement on 15 August 2019, to coincide with National Relaxation Day.Īward-winning artist Rhiannon Armstrong brings hers and others’ lived experience of neurodiversity to an understanding of how GIF culture is currently increasing the hostility of online space. window.Via GIPHY The Slow GIF Movement seeks to make online space more inclusive with gently looping GIFs. We could write the image to the canvas by copying pixel by pixel, but defining a pattern offers a faster alternative. Now, to write the triangle in the JavaScript file. This won't change until near the end of the exercise: Now, to create a canvas and place that first triangle. Ergo, we also need a flipped version of the sample image: The flipped sample In a kaleidoscope, all segments can be drawn by either rotating the base image, or by flipping the base image and possibly then rotating. This is the image that goes at the end of the mirror tunnel, and forms the first, base triangle. To help illustrate what's going on, I'm going to chose a simple image that won't bamboozle - we'll substitute with a more bamboozling image later. The first step is simple - choose a base image to work with. I was pretty happy with the results, though it is resource heavy. A Treatise on the KaleidoscopeĪ few years ago, I created a process to construct a simplified version of the equilateral triangle set up (fig. Here are some variations: Brewster, David (1819). But, even three mirrors can produce many variations based on the angles of the resultant triangle. The configuration and number of the mirrors changes the reflection pattern. Movement of the image at the end of the kaleidoscope produces the familiar effect. An image is displayed at the end of a long tube which is lined with mirrors, usually three, which reflect each other's image to produce an effect. Mirrors are the secret to the amazing effects viewed though a kaleidoscope. I had a lot of fun with Kaleidoscope's as a kid, so let's make one!
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