Eric Dyer Zoetropascope app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Charcoal City Games
First release : 19 Jan 2018
App size: 14.9 Mb
The Eric Dyer Zoetropascope app is used to view certain artworks reproduced in printed publications. Cut out the images and spin on a turntable at 45rpm. Adjust the frequency until the animated images “slide” into place.
About the artist
Eric Dyer brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures, and installations. His work has been widely exhibited at events and venues such as the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Ars Electronica, international animation festivals in numerous countries, the screens of Times Square, and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Artist, and Guggenheim Fellow. Dyer’s fervent exploration of expression through motion has placed his work in books such as Re-imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image, Pervasive Animation, Animation: A World History, and A New History of Animation. He has been a visiting artist at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, ECNU in Shanghai, and CalArts. Dyer teaches visual arts and animation at UMBC in Baltimore and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.