Jerwood Bank 2006 based on In Plain Clothes
  • Title: Jerwood Bank 2006 based on In Plain Clothes
  • Date: 11th June 2009
  • Summary: Rotosketch is quite simply an intuitive tool for sketching, doodling and notating on top of video, such that the marks that are made are linked in time with the video. This allows the user to draw strokes along the axis of time, as well as the normal x and y axes, and for those strokes to augment, analyze, interpret, or even obliterate a video sequence. The software was created together with Scott deLahunta, and Susan Rethorstout of a research fellowship at Dance Theatre Workshop in which we examined how technology might be used to facilitate the dance making process in a creative, stimulating and organic manner. We were constantly asking ourselves, what would the "photoshop" for dance look like? As part of the working process, we examined Susan's style of choreographic research, in which drawing was an essential component. As she unpacked pile after pile of drawn-upon notecards, each of which described a movement phase, and those cards spread across the tabletop, it struck all three of us how a drawing program based on motion might become a useful tool for analyzing and interpreting choreographic phrases. We began to envision a suite of small tools, as opposed to a monolithic "photoshop", all designedto stimulate the creative practice. Rotosketch is one of those tools. Rotosketch was used during the process of the 2006 Jerwood Bank Project based on In Plain Clothes.
  • Work: Rotosketch
  • Dancer: Tammy Arjona
  • Artist: Zachary Lieberman
  • Artist Comments: Zachary Lieberman's work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response.
  • Contributors: Scott deLahunta
  • Analysis: www.thesystemis.com/rotosketch
  • Production Date Original: 2006
  • Production Date - SDD: 11th June 2009
  • Format SDD: .mpeg2
  • Duration: 35secs
  • Web Links: http://www.thesystemis.com/rotosketch/index.html
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