Animotion Exhibition - Civic.

On the 17th of February we visited the Civic to view the animotion exhibition displayed there. As you walked into the room there were four tables which allowed you to make your own zoetrope and your own digital animation. I made my own zoetrope using the character morphe from the cbbc programme smart. In the next room, seperate artists work were displayed. These included interactive pieces and non interactive pieces. With the interactive pieces, you could take your photo which was then added to the work and where your bodily movements morphed the displayed image. An example of an non interactive piece was 'Calavera'. This piece was an inflatable sugar skull with a series of phenakistoscopes projected onto the eyes.

My favourite time based piece was 'The nature of imagination' produced by David Urwin. This piece works by showing a created 3D world through an Oculus Rift headset and capturing the wearers movements with a Microsoft Kinect. The headset and Kinect are sun rounded together and feed into the game energy to create the world and skeleton, animated in real time. 

If you changed perspectives of ' The nature of imagination' you would not see much change. The aim of the piece is to be unable to understand the wearers movements, keeping us guessing what they see in their world, similar to life. If the angle of view was changed we would still be able to see the movements of the skeleton and still be unaware of what the wearer is seeing. 

If I meet and the David Urwin I would ask him how he came to this idea of creating a visual world and the theory behind it of being unaware of what people see in their own world. I would also like to ask him of how he created the piece. 

What I like about this piece is that it is imaginative and unique. I also like the thought behind the design of how we cannot understand the way people are unless we full understand and can view their world. 

Five worlds to describe this piece is: unique, imaginative, creative, fun, entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8EZDIDE-Ig