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Forms
Quayola,
Memo Akten
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_Forms_ is a collaboration between the visual artists Quayola and Memo Akten. 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 by similarly inspired 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 today’s society with an overpowering competitive edge, the disciplines are deconstructed and interrogated from an exclusively mechanical and aesthetic point of view, concentrating on the invisible forces generated by and influencing the movement.
The source for the study is footage from the Commonwealth Games. The process of transformation from live footage to abstract forms is exposed as part of the interactive multi-screen artwork to provide an insight into the evolution of the specially crafted world in which the athletes were placed.
Links: http://www.memo.tv/forms/ http://www.quayola.com/forms/
It is inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton Étienne-Jules Marey as well as by similarly inspired 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 today’s society with an overpowering competitive edge, the disciplines are deconstructed and interrogated from an exclusively mechanical and aesthetic point of view, concentrating on the invisible forces generated by and influencing the movement.
The source for the study is footage from the Commonwealth Games. The process of transformation from live footage to abstract forms is exposed as part of the interactive multi-screen artwork to provide an insight into the evolution of the specially crafted world in which the athletes were placed.
Links: http://www.memo.tv/forms/ http://www.quayola.com/forms/
Quayola & Memo Akten – Artists
Nexus Interactive Arts – Production Company
Beccy McCray – Producer
Jo Bierton – Production Manager
Matthias Kispert – Sound design
Maxime Causeret – Houdini Developer
Raffael F J Ziegler (AKA Moco) – 3D Animator
Katie Parnell – 3D Tracker
Eoin Coughlan – 3D Tracker
Mark Davies – 3D Tracking Supervisor
Commissioned by the National Media Museum for the ‘In The Blink of an Eye‘ Exhibition 2012; with the support of imove, part of the Cultural Olympiad programme.
With thanks to BBC Motion Gallery and Commonwealth Games Federation.
Nexus Interactive Arts – Production Company
Beccy McCray – Producer
Jo Bierton – Production Manager
Matthias Kispert – Sound design
Maxime Causeret – Houdini Developer
Raffael F J Ziegler (AKA Moco) – 3D Animator
Katie Parnell – 3D Tracker
Eoin Coughlan – 3D Tracker
Mark Davies – 3D Tracking Supervisor
Commissioned by the National Media Museum for the ‘In The Blink of an Eye‘ Exhibition 2012; with the support of imove, part of the Cultural Olympiad programme.
With thanks to BBC Motion Gallery and Commonwealth Games Federation.
Quayola (IT). Regarded for his enigmatic video installations, Quayola creates hybrid spaces of animated painting and sculpture. Engaging a practice of audiovisual performance, drawing, photography and software programming, he explores a fine boundary between the real and the artificial. Special institutional commissions of Quayola’s work have allowed him exceptionally rare access to the art and architecture of churches, theaters and museums in Europe, such as Notre Dame and the Vatican. In his work, original masterpieces and collections become raw canvas, as Quayola anchors a video-based exploration in a conversation about archives, collage, intellectual property and the appreciation of an object.
Memo Akten (TR) is a visual artist, musician and engineer working at the intersection of art and science. His work covers a range of disciplines including installations, performances, films, music videos, online works and mobile applications. He is on the selection committee of ACM SIGGRAPH, computational consultant on the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab and one of the core contributors to the openFrameworks project. A strong supporter of open-source and a believer in the sharing of knowledge, he gives lectures and workshops around the world. In 2011 he co-founded Marshmallow Laser Feast, a collective of like-minded artists, designers and engineers.
Memo Akten (TR) is a visual artist, musician and engineer working at the intersection of art and science. His work covers a range of disciplines including installations, performances, films, music videos, online works and mobile applications. He is on the selection committee of ACM SIGGRAPH, computational consultant on the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab and one of the core contributors to the openFrameworks project. A strong supporter of open-source and a believer in the sharing of knowledge, he gives lectures and workshops around the world. In 2011 he co-founded Marshmallow Laser Feast, a collective of like-minded artists, designers and engineers.