Animal Locomotion

Animal Locomotion, Title Page
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Cats Galloping, initial state
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Cats Galloping
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Stour Woman Walking Up an Incline, Initial State
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Stout Woman Walking Up and Incline
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In Animal Locomotion (1996-2000), which began with drawings made from Muybridge's photographs of figures in motion, the viewer interactively changes the configuration of the site through interactive image manipulation. The server keeps track of the configuration, so that when the next viewer visits the site the last configuration appears on the screen. Interactive image manipulation is also used as a navigational technique, where screen changes take place in response to a partially randomized accounting of the current state of the screen. The viewer is embedded in a non-linear process that can never be entirely controlled. In keeping with this interest in process and the sub-rational, the site looks at the psychology and culture of image-making which Muybridge shared with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylavania Academy of Fine Arts and explores the subliminal nature of image-making.