"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
(Martin Mull)
Two very different but equally hypnotic uses of motion-tracking technology to "dance about architecture":
Forms - Memo Akten and Quayola
"Forms is an ongoing collaboration between visual artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time. ... The project investigates athletes... from an exclusively mechanical and aesthetic point of view; concentrating on the invisible forces generated by and influencing the movement."
Forms was commissioned for the exhibition In The Blink of an Eye, part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme. See Memo's website for still images and a version of the video without the source imagery.
Phadroid - Android Jones and Phaedra Ana
This video is from a recent collaboration with William Close and the Earth Harp.
This video makes the motion-tracking influence a bit clearer:
(Hat tips to Vanessa Shaver and Aaron McLean!)
Posted by Alison Humphrey at August 29, 2012 10:28 AM