Reconfigured Cube – Version 1 [1.1, 1.2, 1.3]

Thomas Qualmann

Riverside Gallery
Saturday 3 December 2011 – Wednesday 4 January 2012

Stop-motion animations made from pencil drawings [inverted].
360 frames, looped and synchronized.

A cube is seen from three orthogonal viewpoints rotating through 360º. As they are not synchronous, the rates at which the viewpoints of individual corners rotate define cycles of distortions in the resulting projection. These distortions pertain to the system of viewing rather than to the data, which is consistent in its description of a single, stationary cube.

Each corner of the cube is ascribed an arbitrary value, and the dynamic distortion of the shape over time is then an emergent property of the relationship between the positions of these values.

Thomas Qualmann was born in Winchester in 1983. He has studied at Winchester School of Art, Bath School of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art. He lives and works in London.

www.thomasqualmann.com