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Blis Obscura
Bus Obscura is a passenger bus converted to a multiple aperture camera obscura using a
rear projection technique that allows the individual images to flow into one another. As
the bus moves down the street a 360 degree animated panorama is created inside.
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Passengers sit in the seats as usual but instead of looking out on the real scene as it passes
by, they see a real time projection of the same scene. The exterior view from the bus is
projected onto the interior of the bus and the individual apertures create images that
merge into each other and create a real time animated projection of the world outside.
The bus becomes the camera and the projector and the audience sits inside.
The bus, along with a guide, will be available to schools, senior centers, community
groups and events in Dublin for a 1 to 2 week period. Riders will board the bus for a
short 10- 15 minute excursion that will be an amazing ride much like being u1 the middle
of a film. Beyond the visual experience, the trained guides, students from local art
schools, will be available to give workshops in the principals behind the camera obscura.
Bus Obscura is the creation of the artist Simon Lee who currently lives and works in
Brooklyn. Simon has exhibited his photographs and video works extensively in Europe
and America. He has taken the concept of Bus Ohscura to six different locations since its
first appearance in Miami Beach, Florida in 2004. It has been in New York City,
Pittsburgh, London, Kampala, Uganda and Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Its
appearance here will be its first West Coast venue.
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