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Merce’s Isosurface [openFrameworks]

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Four artists — Brian Knep, Golan Levin, Casey Reas and Sosolimited — were invited to independently re-purpose Merce Cunningham’s dance performance data into new digital forms. Motion capture information of Merce Cunningham‘s performance has been released as open source data by the Cunningham Foundation and OpenEnded Group. Golan Levin used captured coordinates of Cunningham’s fingers and knuckle joints to create a twitchy, fleshy blob. As with any motion capture data, the collected information is inevitably human. Golan’s piece Merce’s Isosurface posses these same qualities, that adopt organic, lifelike properties of the original source.

A wonderful project. To find out more, visit Golan’s website.

Developed in openFrameworks.

Golan Levin develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia.

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