http://www.memo.tv/forms
Forms is an ongoing collaboration between visuals artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time. It is inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Étienne-Jules Marey as well as similarly inspired modernist cubist works such as Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No.2″. Rather than focusing on observable trajectories, it explores techniques of extrapolation to sculpt abstract forms, visualizing unseen relationships – power, balance, grace and conflict – between the body and its surroundings.
The project investigates athletes; pushing their bodies to their extreme capabilities, their movements shaped by an evolutionary process targeting a winning performance. Traditionally a form of entertainment in todays society with an overpowering competitive edge, the disciplines are deconstructed and interrogated from an exclusively mechanical and aesthetic point of view;…
Footage was shot during "100 dancers", a 2011 Copenhagen dance event. The dancers are experimenting with motion sensitive "second skin".
Website:
http://www.liveartinstallations.com/100dancers/
CREDITS:
light cloth 'Second Skin' prototype by Diffus, Copenhagen
design by:
Delphine Piault (http://www.piostudio.com )
Coline Fontaine (http://www.colinefontaine.blogspot.com)
Marlene Fischer
Zeynep Sen (http://www.zeysen.com/)
Nina Wester
'100 Dancers' events Copenhagen August 2011
International dancers + artists meeting
by Pipaluk Supernova, Live Art Installations
www.100dancers.org
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This channel is part of the research about body, media and art. The intersection between dance and technology. Videos about the visualization of the body movement and its relationship with the space that surrounds it.
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