If you liked Universal Everything’s films on human and digital movement, you’ll enjoy this visualisation of the kinetics of sports.
Behold the invisible swoosh and swirl of athletic movement in digital art – Aeon
Forms is a collaboration between the London-based visual artists Memo Akten and Davide Quayolas, and it generates dynamic digital art from the bodies of world-class athletes at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Inspired by modernist and early photographic interrogations of bodies in motion, such as Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 (1912), the project, in Akten’s words, plays with ‘abstract forms, visualising unseen relationships – power, balance, grace and conflict – between the body and its surroundings’.
The video above, Forms (process), shows how the source video was transformed into the final film.
Forms – Memo Akten
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.
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The ambient noise in the background is equally as impressive as the visuals I thought, really capitvating. I have tweeted it out….love it
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Yes I saw that, thanks for that. And you’re right, very captivating. They should make more for the Olympics.
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I read somewhere in the news (although this is hardly reliable) that they would cancel the Olympics this year in Tokyo because of the Corona Virus…I certainly hope not
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I heard that too, what a nightmare. Can you imagine the absolute disruption that would cause, to the athletes, the broadcasters, the organisers, the local economy etc etc?
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Yeah I read in the news they are holding out on the Olympics, but really who would want to go if you have a risk of getting corona virus. I’m glad I didn’t book a holiday in Japan, as I was going to in the next few months
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Have you seen this? https://www.isitcanceledyet.com/
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This looks like a good website thanks Terry. I am helping my best friend to organise her wedding over Easter, people flying in from all over the place….to Melbourne…we hope it actually happens, its interrupting everyone’s lives
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