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Eventually
camera obscura artists and operators created pantomime
dramas that were performed outside the camera obscura
and then were projected inside the device and displayed
to a paying audience.
Because the popularity of the
occult in the late 1800s in North America and Europe,
a number of camera obscura artists and operators connected
their “projected pantomime dramas” with
séance-like activities inside their camera obscuras,
thereby directly linking the display of a projected,
narrative-based moving image with ghosts, and a visual
projection of the invisible, the unknown, and of the
parallel spirit world (Coleman).
To combine the idea of the media
ghost and to find a way to look into the modern electronic
arcade, we have started an invention process to create
a device that we call the CompuObscura. Similar
to the camera obscura, the CompuObscura is a theater
and a projector combined, and like early film cameras
such as the Lumiere brothers' cinematograph, the CompuObscura
is a camera and an image processing device.
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