Budy sneaks into classic films, making them better.

Chopin's Harp Etude restructured footage of a street basketball game in Baltimore.

A Chopin Mazurka restructured video clips of my 1967 Schwinn Speedster.

The secret motion hidden within the favorite American mid-day meal.

Spinning manhole covers reveal secret motion hidden underfoot.

film perforation refuse is turned into animation.

Woven 35mm film trailers

Woven 35mm film trailers

burned 35mm film trailers

stacked 35mm film trailer strips

Woven 35mm film trailer

UMBC Visual Arts student John Rouse teaches Baltimore Symphony Orchestra percussionist how to use the live video triggering system.

Whiteboard with the students' plan for the progression of visuals in the "Try to Believe" video.

Front page exposure for the students' project.

The 2008 UMBC Imaging Research Center Visual Arts Fellows pose in front of the Brooklyn Museum, where their video was presented live on stage.

Students reacted via zoetrope sculptures to Brooklyn Philharmonic Composer-in-Residence Randall Wolff's Try to Believe composition.

Students from my UMBC Imaging Research Center Fellows course Visual Symphony collaborated with the Brooklyn Philharmonic- their synchronous video was projected at the Brooklyn Museum on stage with live musicians as part of the BP's contemporary chamber music series Traversing the Mushroom Kingdom.

My MFA thesis project and a collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the Symphony in Motion program, Marin Alsop, Conductor. Set to John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine.

Students from my UMBC Imaging Research Center Fellows course Visual Symphony collaborated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra- their synchronous video was projected at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on stage with live musicians.

Inflating the hot air balloon zoetrope prototype

Students from the CalArts Experimental Animation Program, Eastern China Normal University, Shanghai, show off their creations.

An idea for how to create an installation with umbrella zoetropes. The public stands under strobe lights and views the back-lit animations while spinning the umbrella.

While teaching an animation workshop for the CalArts Experimental Animation annex program at Eastern China Normal University in Shanghai, I went about the city recording interesting motion. I also had the students bring in their favorite umbrellas/parasols to spin for my camera. It then dawned on me: why not make the umbrella the zoetrope?

2013, 12"x12", vinyl

2013, nylon, 6'x15'x6'

2013, 48"x38"x48"

2014, 30"x42" inkjet print

2006, 24"x11"x24" One of 26 Copenhagen Cycles cut-paper zoetrope sculptures.

The video was projected on stage as an accompaniment to live performances by the rock band Guillemots. Toured throughout the UK in 2008.

8 hours into piece

Exhibition opening, September 6, 2014. Ten spinning paper zoetropes viewable with shutter glasses.

Full page ad in the September 2014 issue of Artforum, for the Copenhagen Cycles exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY.

New Frontier Artist Exhibition, 2007 Sundance Film Festival

New Frontier Artist Exhibition, 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT

A bicyclist travels through a kinetic pop-up book collage of Denmark’s capital. "Dyer’s judicious use of contemporary animation in reclaiming the older pioneering grammar of moving image practice enables the viewer to embrace the experience of ‘seeing again’ while ‘seeing afresh’." Paul Wells, author of Re-imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image

Final strips of animation, painted, acrylic spheres and pincer-gears added.

Beginning to paint the 3D prints.

Strips of animation fresh from the 3D-printer at Shapeways, NY.

Strips of animation fresh from the 3D-printer at Shapeways, NY.

Testing the animation before 3D-printing. Raymond Bergeron, 3D Animator and print prep

104"x52"x58"; nylon, wood, acrylic, steel, live video

Live visual zoetrope performance with band Batworth Stone, The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD

Live visual zoetrope performance with band Batworth Stone, The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD

Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Promo poster for collaborative performance with pianist Jiayin Shen, Tropic Cinema theater, Key West, FL. Culmination of my residency at The Studios of Key West.

Press Release

2013, paper and acrylic, live video Performance at Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

200ftx200ft, Proposed geotrope, white cardboard boxes in desert.

2015 100ftx100ft form mowed into landscape, filled with snow.

2015, Video 80ft x 80ft form cut into the landscape with a weed whacker, then photographed with a photo-drone, and digitally spun.

Museum Director Gerfreid Stoker and me at the Bellows installation, which was exhibited as part of the opening of the new Ars Electronica Center, when Linz was the European Capital of Culture (2009).

Children viewing the animation on the zoetropes with liquid crystal shutter glasses.

At the Los Angeles Convention Center. A group from Japan taught me how to build special liquid-crystal shutter glasses, allowing the public to view the zoetrope sculptures without the aid of video cameras or strobe lights.

Shooting The Bellows March video.

2009, 16"x10"x16" Zcorp 3D print, acrylics One of 18 zoetrope sculptures from the project.

2009, 8"x10"x8" Zcorp 3D print, acrylics One of 18 zoetrope sculptures from the project.

2009, 16"x4"x16" Zcorp 3D print, acrylics One of 18 zoetrope sculptures from the project.

Six zoetrope sculptures from the project, Los Angeles Convention Center. "By displaying the concrete machinery of illusion, Dyer fundamentally advances the staid gallery practice of video installation. He delightfully joins the nineteenth century with the twenty-first, and lets the viewer compare self-contained zoetrope space with a video surround." George Griffin, Eric Dyer: Take the B Train, Pervasive Animation, Edited by Suzanne Buchan, AFI Film Reader Series, Routledge

Crowds of concertinas live out a cycles of destroy-create-destroy. “…visually and aurally mesmerizing. it is rare to see something this unique and well realized.” Frank Mouris, creator of Frank Film “…one of my top 5 films this year. It captures beautifully so many of the very elemental aspects of what animation is about – it blends some techniques that are as old as the filmmaking with some of the latest technologies…. The devices the filmmaker uses to form these visuals are beautiful sculptures in their own right. It’s the film I wish I’d made.” Malcolm Turner, Co-director; London and Melbourne Int’l Animation Festivals “Hints of old school Fischinger and the Quays in this experimental process, but made Dyer’s own by his narrative engagement with loops and cycles, and play with 3D design and colour forms. Highly pertinent soundtrack, with a range of sinister undercurrents that reinforce the theme of oppression destruction and optimistic creativity.

A "shareable" video by Creative Capital in which I discuss my art and why I am moved to make The Zoetrope Tunnel. "Dyer’s work bestrides cinema and gallery, time and technology, animation and animus, and effectively re-imagines animation through its long, lost past." Paul Wells, author, Re-imagining Animation: the Changing Face of the Moving Image

The Zoetrope Tunnel is a 9ft diameter, 20ft long rotating tube. Sculptural paper “frames” of printed, cut, and layered animation are tiled on a spiral path, covering the inner and outer tube, wrapping over the ends, doubling back to the start, creating both a structural and narrative loop. A footbridge spans the inside of the spinning tunnel. Visitors shine handheld strobe lights as they walk through and around the tunnel–- the content is revealed wherever the lights are directed, in all of its dimensional, animated splendor. Adding to the impact on audiences is the zoetropic form of storytelling. While traditional plots want linear events and individual characters, zoetropes lend themselves to repetition, collision, a waterfall of form and motion. The result is a hypnotically engaging neo-narrative structure, one that is simultaneously temporal and spatial. Planned completion: 2016