Shaking Up A Not-So Still Life

By Angela McCormack / January 27th, 2012 in Art / / 246 views

There’s something so tangibly stirring about having something inherently familiar be turned (in this case literally) on its head. The impressively clever Scott Garner is blowing our minds with an art piece that shakes centuries of Still Life paintings to their very foundations. Using an army of complicated sounding contraptions Garner has created an interactive Still Life artwork that responds to the movement of its edges–a picturesque setting of a vase and fruit topple about the frame in real time as it’s shifted on the wall.

How it all works exactly is a little bit lost on us, but it involves a television that was custom framed; a neat spatial USB sensor; software that communicates with the sensor to create the 3D simulation and a camera that monitors the sensor data to create a parented image of the objects and light embodied inside the frame. Phew.

More than just another gimmicky 3D trend, Scott has brought a kind of artwork the 21st century is bored by and erupted the traditional into life: a bland, still painting is ditched for something astounding, playful and innovative.

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