I've been to the Museum of Moving Image countless times in the past. This museum is my absolute favorite one in the city and I often find myself wandering there when I need a dose of inspiration! My favorite exhibit in this entire building is one that is recently added, the Feral Fount by Greg Barsamian.
Barsamian's 3D sculpture is essentially a really big zoetrope. A zoetrope is a a 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that when it is viewed through slits with a cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous movement. The "Feral Font" exhibit is like this...but on a grand scale. Strobe lights take the place of the slits in a dark room, which gives your eyes resting time to make the sculpture come to life. This illustrates the phenomena of "persistence of vision". A characteristic of human perception where an image remains on the eye's retina for a quick second after it disappears, allowing us to see continuous moving images event thought it is not actually moving.
This is always the coolest thing to view for me. When everyone was looking at it I felt just as excited as they did like I was seeing it for the first time!
Right next to this exhibit the museum offers an interactive area in which you can create your own flip book- which I also find to be super cute for younger kids!
I love that this museum is really interactive and intend on taking advantage of the free pass we were given really soon (especially since they have a Cat exhibit now!)
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