Jul 30 2010

Knitting, embroidery, crocheting and needlepoint in animation and stop motion

Animation, stop motion and computing have a lot of possibilities and techniques for expressing ideas and stories… Following last posts regarding textiles, I simply got an idea to collect few animated and stop motion films which were designed with the help of knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepoint…

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Science Project: Temperature by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
hand-stitched cotton doily, 2005

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Mar 27 2010

Interview with Brice Leroux, part 2: Choreographing bodies and spaces

This is the second part of the interview with choreographer and dancer Brice Leroux. Read the first part here: Interview with Brice Leroux, part 1, Dancing lumino kinetics

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Electron-positron interaction from Continum by Brice Leroux

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Mar 27 2010

Interview with Brice Leroux, part 1: Dancing lumino kinetics

French choreographer and dancer Brice Leroux presented in February his lumino kinetic dance piece ‘Solo#2-Fréquences‘ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. The guest performance was organized by Eurokaz – The International Festival of New Theatre.

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Photo of Brice Leroux by Sandra Piretti (c)

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Feb 26 2010

Body cinema: Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev) by Random Dance Company

Thanks to the fact that I’m following Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds on Facebook I got the link to 26 minute BBC footage of Wayne McGregor‘s choreography ‘Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)’ from 2009… I like them both, McGregor and Arnalds

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Random Dance Company: Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)

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Feb 6 2010

Interview with So Kanno: Creating sound devices

Very unique DJ turntable entitled Jamming Gear by So Kanno has been recently presented at TEI 10 – The Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction in Cambridge – Massachusetts (USA). Kanno was in Zagreb in October, 2009 at Device art 3.009 when we talked about his works.

so_kanno.jpgPhoto: So Kanno taken at Device art by Kontejner

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