nightwalking

tim knowles is a british artist performing unique and rigorous explorations mapping movement and recording the disturbances of ephemera

one flat thing

reproduced…

A joint project of choreographer William Forsythe and Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) and the Department of Dance, Synchronous Objects is an extensive and unique resource. This project aims to create a large set of data visualization tools for understanding and analyzing the interlocking systems of organization in the choreography of William Forsythe’s “One Flat Thing, reproduced” (2000). These systems were quantified through the collection of data and transformed into a series of objects – synchronous objects – that work in harmony to explore those choreographic structures, reveal their patterns, and re-imagine what else they might look like. As the authors explain: “Our goal in creating these objects is to engage a broad public, explore cross-disciplinary research, and spur creative discovery for specialists and non-specialists alike.”

mapping examples

examples from spring 2009 arch102 mapping exercises:

consider line of travel as one of several edges of experience

and incorporating photographs not as scenes but as textures and environments