Kairotoskope stands for all of those time deviations that occur sometimes unnoticed in quotidian habits, non-linear opportune moments that are impossible to quantify, deviations from straight lines in form of waves. 
The piece is inspired by the magic discs of cabinets of curiosity and the optical discoveries of pre-cinematography, especially Joseph Plateau’s Phenakistoscope. It consists of a disc attached to a motorised mechanism which, by rotating at a constant speed, animates the drawings on its surface due to the short flashes of a stroboscope which freezes the image just fast enough and for the right amount of time to create the illusion of motion. 
The installation is capable of triggering one second of motion that is repeated infinitely only in the moment when all the machines are perfectly synchronised with themselves. One of the purposes of my study consists of playing with all of those possibilities of expanding the perception of the given second. The network of white lines performing pulsatory movements is to be decoded as a graphical notation and converted into a wide range of sound frequencies by an optical reading device that can be manoeuvred by the public on the surface of the disk. The viewer is invited to define its individual perceptive trajectory, by interacting with the machine and exploring the possible sound outcomes.





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Ioana Vreme Moser