Kaleidoscope & Object Score Notation, the Next Generation
The shiny floor of the CCA and a very ancient desire of Lot to be able to divide the space in tracked and non tracked zones, inspired Simon to create the object vidmask.
Vismask works by installing an overlay with a black image in which the tracked zones are made transparant (size of the screen).
BEFORE – TESTING – AFTER
As a closure of the work in the Creative Lab Kirsty and An organised a public moment to share the results.
In the space they set up the table top, a library with the books they consulted and a list of parameters against the wall.
Inspired by Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons Kirsty and An looked into the different qualities one can use to compose, in this case, a text. The idea is to write words or a sentence through association on rhythm, colour, meaning, etc. Here it suited the way objects would engage in a conversation through objscrs.
Dorothé and An already used the same technique during their Summer Residency at Parts: in movement and in text.
Organising loops, timing the machinal actions by using the metronome function (‘time’), playing with variables through the selection objects (‘composition’), and having data moved by bodies (‘agency’) were the main ‘machinal’ specs we forces ourselves to look into.
The improvisation exercises we did in the mornings pointed out some more parameters. We divided them into:
– ‘live’ parameters, such as: force, body volume and texture
– ‘software’ parameters such as: body area, dominant, continuous and static tracking
– ‘visual’ parameters (on the projection screen) such as: texture, position
And there are parameters that belong to various fields.
The scheme has to be completed & reorganised 🙂
