The Ludwig Museum takes part in the commotion of the Palace of Arts Children’s Day programme with an interesting outdoor project. Media artist Miklós Bölcskey invites children and their parents with an interest in photography to take part in a joint creative process.
Together with the participants, the artist will build a large-scale (100-150 m2) Camera Obscura. Then, in the darkness within it, they will render visible the image of the outside world by projecting it onto smoke and canvas, to record it finally with a digital camera.
Darkness, light, vision, the laws of physics and the volatile image will attain an interesting connection with digital technology, which spares the century-long darkroom procedure with the image wrapped in darkness. Digital technology, however, makes it possible for us to record the development of the image in a simple manner.
The image may finally be that which it is; being no longer confined to a frame, but extending in our environment, it can communicate the outside world in the language of darkness.
After successful performances in the UK and Switzerland, this is the first presentation of the project in Hungary.
