Project Feature: Shadow Machines

#DLECTRICITY presents “Shadow Machines” by Layne Hinton, a projection installation of delicate, crisp shadows of a small mesh sculpture. Building on old magic lanterns and other 17th-century projector technologies, these apparatuses present viewers with a duet of cinematic projections created without film.

As the focal lens shifts slowly forwards and backwards, the projected image appears to turn the small sculpture almost inside out. The visual illusion of shifting focus through an object leaves us unable to decipher the difference between the inside and the outside of the sculpture. Shadow Machines creates cinema out of the basic elements of light, time and space, without any film or moving images. See it projected outside the Detroit Institute of Arts TONIGHT and tomorrow at DLECTRICITY!