LEMNISCATE
LEMNISCATE – DESIGN
Lemniscate is the result of a Laboratory, that was presented at Yale at the end of the semester, in which a Sound Designer, a Video Designer, and a Dancer came together to investigate new forms of the relationship among those disciplines.
The group chose as the subject of the research the concept of Infinite.
Infinite is a concept that our brain cannot really full picture, without landing to a concept of finite.
The human brain seems to end up producing a finite ‘picturing’ of the concept of infinite, every time it happens to think about it. While either going up or down in scale,
Thinking of infinite as something that can go up in scale or down, we always come up with an image with edges and so finite. The atoms, as the infinite smallest part of the mass, come pictured as a sphere of neutrons and protons, surrounded by orbits of electrons.
The universe, is a blue rectangle, with lots of stars and galaxies.
Our brain seems to be made to picture anything with edges.
Focusing on the infinite possibilities that would outcome by empowering the performer to influence the shape, direction, and evolution of an image, simply using a part of the body.
The idea of creating different forms of intimacy between the performer and the audience based on the unique series of events that happen on stage and how storytelling is influenced.
By using a Kinect as input into a Touch Designer Patch, I was able to create a Particle system that not only was tracking the hands of the performer but also allowed to create a different interaction between the simple ‘following’.
Researching in the software it was possible to associate the particle system to its own gravity and so do with the hand-node in the skeleton of the Kinect CHOP (one of the Touch designer channel operators).
This creates the effect of stretching the blob once the hand enters the field of tracking and the two ‘masses’ one physical and one virtual, start to interact.
The result works for the poetic of the narrative and the freedom of the performance
LEMNISCATE
LEMNISCATE – DESIGN
Lemniscate is the result of a Laboratory, that was presented at Yale at the end of the semester, in which a Sound Designer, a Video Designer, and a Dancer came together to investigate new forms of the relationship among those disciplines.
The group chose as the subject of the research the concept of Infinite.
Infinite is a concept that our brain cannot really full picture, without landing to a concept of finite.
The human brain seems to end up producing a finite ‘picturing’ of the concept of infinite, every time it happens to think about it. While either going up or down in scale,
Thinking of infinite as something that can go up in scale or down, we always come up with an image with edges and so finite. The atoms, as the infinite smallest part of the mass, come pictured as a sphere of neutrons and protons, surrounded by orbits of electrons.
The universe, is a blue rectangle, with lots of stars and galaxies.
Our brain seems to be made to picture anything with edges.
Focusing on the infinite possibilities that would outcome by empowering the performer to influence the shape, direction, and evolution of an image, simply using a part of the body.
The idea of creating different forms of intimacy between the performer and the audience based on the unique series of events that happen on stage and how storytelling is influenced.
By using a Kinect as input into a Touch Designer Patch, I was able to create a Particle system that not only was tracking the hands of the performer but also allowed to create a different interaction between the simple ‘following’.
Researching in the software it was possible to associate the particle system to its own gravity and so do with the hand-node in the skeleton of the Kinect CHOP (one of the Touch designer channel operators).
This creates the effect of stretching the blob once the hand enters the field of tracking and the two ‘masses’ one physical and one virtual, start to interact.
The result works for the poetic of the narrative and the freedom of the performance