Study of the Modulation of Forms

Spectral decomposition of light, machinima of generative application


Description

Artist:  Nourathar Studio

Authors: Caen Botto & Marta Rupérez

Title: Study of the Modulation of Cubes / Study of the Modulation of Spheres

Date: 2019


Medium: Mixed media; screen, video player, electronics, lens, perspex in custom wooden box. 

Custom application developed in Max/MSP/Jitter by Caen Botto

Dimensions: 44,5 (h) x 44,5 (w) x 30 (d) cm

Loop duration: 11'00"

Edition: unique within a series of 5

Concept

The artworks in this series explore the convergence of analogue and digital media: a wooden box contains an analogue lens that produces morphological and chromatic deformations of the animated content. The spectral decomposition of light, caused by the lens, affects the perception of the modulation of forms. In these Studies of the Modulation of Forms, the observer's point of view determines the perception of the work.

To create the animated content, Nourathar Studio developed a generative application that explores morphological mutations produced by the inter-modulation of three-dimensional primary shapes (cubes or spheres); between themselves and with different types of signals or algorithms of greater or lesser predictability. The work presents the resulting machinima, as a sequence of moving inter-modulations floating within a space of unexpected depth. The movement of these structures underlines the morphological decomposition and recomposition, like an animated cubism that allows for the analysis of these forms and all their possible perspectives.