Posts Tagged ‘movement’
The little site scientist
My adviser, Marc, has continually been encouraging me to be rigorous and follow a control and variable method of experimentation. I’m trying to be scientific and actually stick with it. What usually happens is that I’ll do a few experiments and then follow one meandering branch a ways and never getting around to doubling back [...]
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Tags: fabric, Marc Swackhamer, models, movement, performance, rhino, site specific, test
Synchronous Objects
This project is astounding! Go look at it and then come back here. Go on, go. Amazing, right? My colleague, Lindy thought this might interest me and boy was she right! Compared with my work in analyzing two dances with 2-3 dancers, the sheer scope of this project humbles me. The rigor of the analysis [...]
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Tags: amazing awesomeness, analysis, dance, geometry, inspiration, interaction, movement, performance, presentation, representation, video
Form Constant
This is an amazing MFA thesis project by dancer Hope Goldman. It reminds me that I’d talked about light and lighting earlier in the semester and now it’s time to bring it back as I start/try to finalize this project. (Via BoingBoing)
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Tags: dance, data, fluid dynamics, inspiration, kinetic, light, movement, performance, temporal, video
Ann Hamilton
At my interim review last Friday, Martha McQuade suggested that I look at the work of the artist Ann Hamilton, specifically a piece called whitecloth at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art that uses fabric and blurs the line between art and architecture. Two pieces of fabric move forward and back on a simple motorize [...]
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Tags: Ann Hamilton, art, fabric, Martha McQuade, motion, movement, sculpture, site specific
For some nice ruminations about kinetic architecture, check out this post at InteractiveArchitecture.org.
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Tags: architecture, kinetic, kinetic architecture, movement
Oskar Schlemmer
The Bauhaus does not disappoint. The work of Oskar Schlemmer, the sculpture cum stage shop director, jumps back and forth across the line between costume and architecture with acute attention to the geometry of the components. These are beautiful costumes. The video, though, shows that although the wearer can dance in these costumes, there doesn’t [...]
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Tags: Bauhaus, costume, dance, geometry, movement, Oskar Schlemmer, performance
Attractors
I came across this image during an afternoon spent in some delightful google image searching. An attractor, as I learned from Wikipedia (also the source of this image), “is a set to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time.” Part of me doesn’t want to read further and let facts spoil my [...]
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Tags: attractors, computer, grasshopper, math, movement, swirl, technology
Bat Wing and Body Acoustic
For the final week of the Body Acoustic course, the assignment was to design and construct a prop and perform with it. I took this as the perfect jump-start to building a full-scale mock-up of the bat wing model I made early in the semester. Here’s a very early mock-up to test the channel at [...]
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Tags: architecture, Body Acoustic, Dana Reitz, dance, deployment, fabric, Leslie VanDuzer, models, movement, performance
Confession: the library makes me nervous. Dewey and his decimal system makes me very uncomfortable. I often feel embarrassed as I attempt to quietly walk (impossible in squeaky boots) around and around to find the right shelf–quarto, folio, NA, TS. This, I suppose, has led to my less-than-dexterous use of the MNCat search features. While [...]
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Tags: architecture, deployment, library, movement, portable, precedent, temporary, transportable
“Wears you out after a while”
“It was quite a chore to figure out how to build it, design it, make the parts work.” These words are from Del, the star of the video below and maker of the amazing wooden structure featured. Just when I’m feeling quite proud of myself and the wing I made this week, Del reminds me [...]
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Tags: crank drive, devices of motion, diy, mechanisms, movement, wood
