Hypnotic Record Player Animations with Nick Sayers

Event Details

Saturday

11am – 5pm

Sunday

11am – 5pm

Age

All ages

Venue

Cathedral Square

How to attend

Drop in

Price

Free

Draw hypnotic animations using record players, bike cogs, colour pens, and a mobile phone camera! 

This workshop is a modern take on Victorian zoetrope or ‘phenakistoscope’ paper animations: circular animation sequences that are brought alive when spun on a turntable and filmed on digital video. By tracing around bike cogs with different numbers of teeth, a variety of animation effects can be created when viewed through a phone camera. 

Presented in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and the University of Lancashire.

About Nick Sayers

Nick Sayers is a science-artist and maker whose work is inspired by STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).

He has made rooms into walk-in cameras, drawing machines from bicycles, drawn portraits of people in 123 countries via Zoom during the pandemic, shot cityscapes with six-month-exposure pinhole cameras, run camera-making workshops, organised three-mile urban cycle tours of the Solar System at one:billion scale, and built geometric spherical sculptures from recycled materials.

He has brought his interactive science-art activities to schools and science events around the UK and the world.