Gregory Barsamian’s art is utilizes and demonstrates the concept of persistence of vision. In the video of one of Barsamian’s piece, “Feral Front”, you first see the overall view of the machine. The audience, by observing a step away from the machinery, can see the preconditions of an event generating a persistence of vision through the human eye. For Barsamian to create the effect of persistence of vision, he has to make his sculptures to move fast enough for the images presented before the eye one after the other to be perceived simultaneously. 

Another piece of Barsamian’s work, “Runner”, resembles the appearance of a phenakistiscope. Unlike the original phenakistiscope, “Runner” allows the observer to focus more on the ‘moving’ sculpture as the back wheel rotates mechanically while the front wheel is put still, thus putting the spectacle under spotlight.