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Title: Dancing algae
Tags: users
Date: 1 June 2022
Author: LABORATORIUM


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<p>Animation is a time-based medium, so are dance and choreography. They are arts of the instant, and play around with memory, projection in the happening, and highlight the ephemeral aspect of the present. </p>

<p>The concept of using micro algae as a tracing material enhances this idea of past being reenacted on each frame, of a living-dead character in the previous moves. The micro algae are already dead, and fade away as they dry out and the light is projected on the surface. It’s an act of remembrance, which opposes this quality of dance and animation being ephemeral. The technique reminds me of archaic technology, like these (find type) old TV screens, which keep in the dark backgrounds the trace of the previous images. Like short-term memory, it enhances the curve onto which the dancer moves, and keeps alive what is already gone.</p>



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