Interactive Art & Rotary Glass Plates

In creating Rotary Glass Plates Marcel Duchamp was a significant influence in the beginning of performance art. He worked on this with Man Ray in 1920. It was a set of plexi-glass pieces shaped like wings that had stripes painted on them. These were placed along a rotating shaft. The user had to push a button and stand at a certain distance to see the effect as the glass rotated. Later he made Disks Bearing Spirals using the same model, this time attempting to make a three dimensional film out of it. This became Anemic Cinema, a film of alternating shots of text and spirals which were mounted on spinning disks. All of these endeavors used the effect of optical illusion that happens because our eyes retain images for a fraction of a second after the image is removed.