DAVID LAWREY & JAKI MIDDLETON

The sound before you make it (2005), kinetic sculpture. Wood, plastic, paint, motor, strobe light, sensor, sound. Sound sampled from Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1983) video.

 

Remixing a scene from Michael Jackson’s Thriller, this work employs the technology of the zoetrope; animating three-dimensional figures via the sequencing of movement and a strobe light to create the illusion that the disk is stationary and the zombies are dancing.