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EXCERPTS >|< Bicycle Trick Riding (1899)

Animated gif excerpted from Bicycle Trick Riding (1899): a 38” film dated march 20th, 1899 by Thomas A. Edison, showing us maybe the first bicycle trickster in the world. The video opens with the man - whose name is probably Nieder - riding a bicycle in a backwards circle on the stage, with a painted backdrop of a city street.

We invite you to watch the full video HERE (video n.9)

Una gif animata estratta da Bicycle Trick Riding (1899): un filmato di 38” del 20 marzo 1899 firmato Thomas A. Edison che mostra quello che è forse il primo bike trickster del mondo. Il video si apre con il protagonista - il cui nome è probabilmente Nieder - pedalare all’indietro su un palco; alle sue spalle, un fondale dipinto riproduce un’ambientazione urbana.

Vi invitiamo a vedere il video originale QUI (video n.9)

EXCERPTS by OKKULT MOTION PICTURES: a collection of gifs excerpted from open source/unknown/rare/controversial moving images. A digital humanities project for the diffusion of open knowledge.

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26:T601,Eva Papamargariti (b.1987) is a Greek architect and new media artist. She is currently studying for her Master's Degree in Visual Communication Design, at Royal College of Art, London. She has been working and collaborating with architects, artists and design groups since 2008. Her projects focus on time-based media (digital installations, video, gif animations etc), architecture and graphic design. She is interested in the creation of 2d/3d digital spaces, forms and geometries which can provoke different concepts, narrations and atmospheres

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