PERSISTENCE OF VISION

Stop-motion animation
HD Video NTSC
09:43sec LOOP
2015

Morphic resonance is a theory positing that memory is inherent in nature, which is to say that natural systems such as termite colonies, or pigeons, or orchid plants, or insulin molecules, inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind. The theory goes further to suggest that morphic resonance is responsible for a “telepathic-type interconnection between organisms,” an idea that encompasses subjects such as precognition, telepathy, and the psychic staring effect as well as unconventional explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory.  

PERSISTENCE OF VISION is a stop-motion animation that attempts to build morphic resonance into a work by playing on the limitations of the implemented projector technology as a form of communication between past and present memory. The flaw found in early digital projectors, a three-colour bulb, brought this idea of morphic resonance forward. When you move your eye from dot to dot you can see the trace or ghost of RBG, an effect that is apparent when using any projector of this type. The intent of PERSISTENCE OF VISION is to test how the theories of morphic resonance might work through the apparatus of technology. If memory is an inherent part of nature, then surely this ghosting that happens within technology is an effect that translates to a sort of collective conscious, repeated again and again, and ultimately embedded and translated into experience.

**THIS ANIMATION ONLY WORKS WITH THE PROPER TECHNOLOGY. YOU MUST USE A PROJECTOR WITH AN RGB BULB IN ORDER TO PERCEIVE GHOSTING EFFECT**