A few remarks about Merce Cunningham. (Centralia, 16 april 1919 – New York City, 26 juli 2009). His artistic credo: every movement can be dance every method of composition can create a choreography every part of the body can be used in the dance: isolations dance can be about everything but is first and foremost about the […]
Maand: januari 2016
Interaction Ideas I
It’s time to start formulating clear ideas about the actual interaction between the participant wearing the wearable, the floor and the parachutes. What are the questions we are trying to answer? For the installation in EYE, I limited the amount of possible wearables to two. The two directly related to Antic Meet of Merce Cunningham: the chair and the knitted […]
Motor_Testing_Timing
The last couple of days we’ve been testing our motors more intensely. The metalworker Peter delivered a very nice job: a slim but sturdy housing for the motor that will move the big chute. As soon as we got it in our hands, we suspended it with a chute and watched with wonder how the fabric reacted […]
Sensor_Pressure_Velostat
Some of you might know Velostat. The electrically conductive packaging plastic for circuits and computer components. Nowadays it’s often used as a sensor material. When you connect two leads from the plastic to an analogue port of a microcontroller, you can sense if there is pressure on the material. We’ve been trying different ways of […]
Chute_Test_MAX MSP
It’s been a heck of a journey to this point but Chair_Jump_Chute is partially alive! The last days we’ve been thoroughly testing the xBee’s to get them to communicate to MAX MSP (a visual programming language). See the video below where we’ve connected the fans and soundfiles to the movement of the chair Marloeke is […]
Lasercutting the floor
To get a visual pattern on the dance floor, based on the original drawing of Cunningham, I went to FABLAB Amsterdam. I reworked the drawing in Illustrator to get to an abstract graphical pattern. After a lot of testing the material in the lasercutter, these turned out to be the settings to engrave the balletvinyl without […]
Wearables
To research how we could wear different parts of a chair, we completely took apart a chair and analyzed every single part of it. We started from scratch and figured out in what way each part could be a wearable for the human body and in what way it would complement the body and trigger […]
