Thank you for sharing this information.
Also, see http://www.olats.org/schoffer/spatiody.htm.
Best,
Robert Thill
On 3/16/09, Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@craslab.org> wrote:
>
> A dozen pages about relations between Nicolas
> Schöffer and inventions in this review from 2006
> http://www.utbm.fr/upload/gestionFichiers/cahier_recits_4_1292.pdf
>
> page 43 to 65, in french. Schöffer has registered
> several patents for his cybernetic sculptures,
> installations , environements and architectures.
> Many machines for sound, brain or visuals from
> the sixties still work, some need restoration.
> The most famous (and simple) of his dreaming
> machines was the Lumino, build by Philips in USA
> and France.
>
> One of his patents, about one light kinetic
> sculpture and system for projecting on large
> surfaces in architecture:
>
> Schöffer, Nicolas 'Optical Projection System and
> Device for Creating Mobile Projected Images'.
> Patent no. 1.168.155. Requested in Paris on 14
> December 1956
>
>
> 'These projections can be used in all sorts of
> spectacles as decoration, or may by themselves
> constitute a spectacle, in the cinema, in the
> application of architectural mural colouring, on
> interior or exterior surfaces, in all genres of
> advertising, in decoration, in sculpture, in the
> prolongation of the sight of a sculpture by its
> shadow projected in black, in grey or in colour,
> statically or in movement on all types of screens
> characterised in chapter 2 of the present
> descriptive record. These projections may also be
> conceived as part of mobile paintings of some
> sort.'
>
>
> The Schöffer archives are in Villa des Arts in
> Paris, and Eleonore Schöffer, his wife, and Maude
> Ligier, specialist of NS, will help you to find
> documents if you need some for publication
>
>
> Jean-Noël Montagné
>
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