Ars Electronica Festival · 2004
Loops
by Paul Kaiser, Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2004
In 2004, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Loops” by Paul Kaiser, Marc Downie and Shelley Eshkar (Interactive Art) with a Honorary Mention.
Loops is a portrait of Merce Cunningham, but it attends not to his appearance, but to his motion. It is derived from a motion-captured recording of his solo dance for hands and fingers. The motioncaptured joints become nodes in a network that sets them into fluctuating relationships with one another, at times…
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