Jack Tait
"TT Col Ch 08"
Turntable machine - wide pen with rotating colour changer, 12" X 16",
2007.
Turntable machine with digital camera recording colour pen. Separate colour
changing red, green blue filters moving independently to the rotating light
slit image. Slit size at medium width.
"TT LT 07"
Turntable machine - wide pen with rotating colour changer , 16" X 12",
2007.
Turntable machine with digital camera recording colour pen. Separate colour changing blue, magenta and yellow filters moving independently to the rotating light slit image. Slit size at medium width and lens zoomed into light trace path to fill the frame and eliminate too much black background.
"TT LT 01"
Turntable machine - wide pen with fixed colour wedge on pen rotator ,
16" X 12", 2007.
Turntable machine with digital camera recording colour pen. Colour filter set
fixed over the rotating light slit gives different effect. Slit image at maximum
width.
"TT LT 05"
Turntable machine - wide pen with shutter operating, 16" X 12", 2007.
Turntable machine with digital camera recording colour pen. In this a rotating
shutter was placed between the lens and the light pen. Slit size at medium width.
"TT LT Mono grey inversion"
Turntable machine - wide pen with rotating tone changer, 16" X 12", 2007.
Turntable machine with digital camera recording monochrome pen. Separate neutral
density filters place on tone changer moving independently to the rotating light
slit image. Slit size at medium width.
Freelance artist
"The images are all from my drawing machines using a light pen; the basis is the same as that described in my 2006 Bridges paper and my web site taitographs.co.uk . Current work is adapting most of my machines to be able to 'write with light' directly onto either a digital camera or film.
The images are exploring the outcomes of simple sequential instructions given to analogue electro mechanical drawing machines. When using a broad and revolving light pen there is also a perceptual issue of reading the images as photographs displaying a feel of 3D (as per my current Bridges paper Light, movement and 3D)."