The history of the camera has an extensive background since it can be traced back for centuries. During the 5th Century B.C., Mo Ti of China discovers the principal idea of the camera. He noted “that the reflected light rays of an illuminated object passing through a small dark enclosure result in an inverted but exact image of the object”. The types of Cameras that will be covered in this presentation are the Camera Obscuras, Daguerreotypes, Polaroids, film cameras, disposables, and digital cameras.

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. An installation usually allows the viewer to enter and move around the configured space and/or interact with some of its elements, it offers the viewer a very different experience from a painting or sculpture which is normally seen from a single reference point.

Here are some of the examples for Installation Art:

The beauty in a piece of art may be subjective, but these installations can safely be labelled pretty loo-py. Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebağ used hundreds of toilet rolls in creating his paper installations displayed at a gallery in Germany. The toilet rolls are sprawled across walls or hung elaborately from plinths to ‘bring beauty to the everyday’ in big, flowing pieces of art.

His Zen Garden is a large three-dimensional drawing in black and white. Lines run the length of the main gallery’s floor – interrupted by sporadic ‘rock’ clusters – and evenly spaced rectangles cover the walls. Songailo’s repetitive patterns have a seductive quality to them and the overall effect is not at all frenetic.

Zen Garden is not typical of Songailo’s brightly coloured public installations, however its duo-tone simplicity stands in nice contrast to the artist’s urban body of work. It also makes the hint of pink glimpsed through the doorway of Fontanelle’s second gallery an even more intriguing gesture.