Part of Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern series of performances, Time Squared uses projected light, the most basic ingredient of cinema, to create hallucinatory optical effects. Colored slides, a lens, and a spinning shutter are hand manipulated by the artist to animate the patterns reflected onto the screen, creating stereoscopic effects without celluloid or video. Alongside numerous film and video productions, and extensive work with 3D filmmaking techniques, avant-garde film pioneer Ken Jacobs has explored the histories and technologies of the moving image through projector performances for the past five decades, both in shadow plays and with the Nervous System—an apparatus consisting of two 16mm projectors with identical strips of film that create the illusion of spatial depth.