a dance of disrememberment
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Letting Slip: a dance of disrememberment - dynamic animation
See them dance at R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX
Remixed/reanimated, redismembered/redisassociated from Turning Away Toward with Alan's vyrgyn sounding a refrain from trudy
quite like this - I only wish the title was distanced from mine, since the work deals with something else entirely. love the insertions, sad the original animation has disappeared.
ReplyDeleteif you have AfterEffects, wonder what you might do with the Glass effect on this? I tend to use it a lot.
How do you see this in relation to the discussion about avatars? Certainly you're clothing the interior...
I would have responded sooner but for some reason didn't get the announcement in my gmail inbox - if you've put up other work or comments, please let me know, maybe send to sondheim@panix.com? Thanks!
I should have said 'deals with something else' without the 'entirely' of course! and thank you for doing this - noticed Randy's comment (I think it was for this remix?) -
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should change the title - I was vaguely following a (sort of) remixworx tradition of remixing the title of a source, but maybe that's not relevant in this case.
ReplyDeleteThe original animation hasn't disappeared, as such. I only used the still screenshots in Flash, animating the stills programmatically with ActionScript. I used the same process in 'Turning Away Towards'. I intend to experiment with some of your video later - not sure how yet.
The reason I like to use the stills (apart from keeping file size down) is that I can program them randomly so that the animation is ever changing - an endless dynamic performance. Also, I'm attempting to exploit a commonality between the rawVamp/Visible Human slices and screenshots of the 3D avatar animation. I'm reconstituting these screengrabs/screen captures, reanimating them, bringing them back to, not life, but a different form of 'life'. I'm interested in the illusions and disillusions these snaps/grabs/captures conjure up - the coming together and breaking apart, the slip and slide from integration to dissociation and back again - a kind of animated dissociative fugue - continually reconfiguring (and prefiguring?). Is each, one or many? How interdependent are they? etc...
Video animation has a different kind existence - more independent perhaps, certainly its timeline is fixed - the dance repeats but never changes. It will be interesting to see how the rawVamps meet the video and its representations, how they'll interact. Video is enclosed (comparatively), how do the rawVamps get inside? That is, assuming the rawVamps continue their existence in Flash/ActionScript.
I've never used AfterEffects but we bought it a few days ago (along with Premiere, etc.), so now I can experiment, I hope.
'Clothing the interior' is interesting. Arrays of layers/screengrabs/slices/scans can cloth or they can fill out, as in layers of padding or stuffing to give bulk or body to a form. It's a different form of construction to the wireframe approach. One of the things that interested me in this piece was the way the rawVamps and vyrgyn reveal their construction - dismembered in different ways, and neither in the routine way.
I've given it a new title, which I think works better, especially since I envision these as a series of dances.
ReplyDeleteI like the new title, it does work better. Can you say more about ActionScript - I haven't used it, and what you mean by rawVamps? Your description is excellent here.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass effect 'bulks up' the image visually; I've used it a number of times but I don't get tired of it.
In all of these works there's a kind of stuttering that's fascinating - it touches on that issue of the Uncanny Valley I mentioned a while ago - and which by the way played a role in an older Doctor Who episode we watched last night...
ActionScript is the coding language for Flash. It's very much like JavaScript - they have the same root - but ActionScript 3.0, which I use, is better for OOP (but I'm still an OOP novice).
ReplyDeleteThe rawVamps are the reconstituted/reanimated Visible Human figures/avatars. I named them rawVamps when I first used them in remixworx - the 'Vamp' part of the name related to one of the works I was remixing at the time. I haven't renamed them yet but I should because there's nothing vampish about them now. Really, they were nameless creatures until we started discussing them here.
I used to love Doctor Who but haven't watched it in ages. Is the Uncanny Valley episode one of the ones with David Tennant?
It's not called that; it's in the one with the Doctor after Tennant. The series is pretty good and certainly relates to the discussions here!
ReplyDeleteI used the term 'emanants' at times for the avatars I'm working with, since they were also like emanations (related to j/j hastain's apparitions that way).
Do you use other fundamental mterial than the Visible Human project? There should be a lot of things out there - at least for linux/android there are a number of molecular programs for modeling. - just wondering -
I have used one or two other sources, not many. Certainly worth exploring more. At the time I was very interested in internal regions, so a different kind of exploration. I'll look into my archives...
ReplyDelete"molecular programs for modeling"... that's fascinating and daunting at the same time
Just showed up now, how strange! The molecular modeling programs are beautiful in themselves and you can 'manufacture' models of impossible molecules as well. I just got an Android tablet and have one on it - and I have a number in linux. If you're on a Mac there must be a number of free programs available as well.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think the world is so fascinating, that any art we do is just a diacritical mark to what's out there.