Juliana Borinski

The German / Brazilian artist Juliana Borinski in residence at timelab from September 15 to December 15. Juliana was one of the participants in Summer Camp Electrified 2009. She has a total fascination for film in its purest and most elementary form. On the occasion of the Summer Camp 2009, we organized a trip to the Science Museum of the University of Ghent where there is a large archive of scientist Joseph Plateau, active in Ghent in the first half of the 19th century.

Plateau discovered the after-effect of the image on the eye which became a part of the basis of later cinematography. That and other scientific work of Plateau, as his research showed a great source of inspiration for Juliana's residence in her own work. During her residency at timelab Juliana wants to bring old and new technology together and work around abstract imagery in order to penetrate Into the soul of film.

Starting from academic papers of microscopic images, Juliana will examine how she can gather new footage using old techniques such as photogravure and photogram’s, and also new techniques such as digital photography and animation. During her residency, Juliana will also give a guest lecture course in the faculty of KASK and give a presentation about her work at Dorkbot in December 2010.

"It Has Been some time Already That, as an artist, I have been Investigating the legacy of Joseph Plateau, famous Belgian inventor , not only becauses ITS or anti-economic approach or Scientific Interest, but for motion pictures practical enforcement crafted a repertoire at the birth of the XIXth century. In 1829, he was the first Belgian researcher to publish a dissertation at the University of Liège, On Optical Phenomena, in French language, and not in Latin. He theoretized chromatic and chemical composition of early photography, modeling the cradle subtilities of a new art. Indeed, the intrisic relation of still and moving images put Plateau at a fusion point between cinema and photography. This interelation is, as much as the material dimension of lumino graphy, at the core of my artistic research.”  Juliana Borinski