Type/Dynamics
Interactive installation and short dance filmType/Dynamics was showcased and recorded live inside Amsterdam modern art museum Stedelijk. The project revolved around the theme of ‘data versus embodiment’.
“Two dancers collide in a chamber filled with liquid light and, for a moment as chance as their encounter, the chaos of the universe begins to take form. If it sounds like science fiction, you’re not too far off—this is TYPE/DYNAMICS, the new film from Ruben Van Leer”
locations in the news as realtime scenography
The interactive installation visualises dynamic web based information that continuously surrounds us and is always accessible. Our application searches for real-time locations currently in the news, like ‘Ground Zero’, ‘Reichstag’, or ‘Tiananmen Square’. The installation can locate the panorama images from Google Street View, abstract them into grids and fill the grids with new visual information. As a visitor to the space, you are literally ‘transported’ to that location and surrounded by all the news associated with that specific location. Instead of a photographic representation, the place is represented purely typographically with a host of new items currently being talked about at that location. Nothing in the gallery space stands still; all information is dynamic.
This short film was recorded on an average day at the Stedelijk Museum, open for public. The audience could literally observe our dancers Valentina Scaglia & Lukas Timulak perform a semi-improvised piece as a reaction to the dynamic typography of the scenography, captured live by filmmaker Ruben Van Leer.
“The presentation at the Stedelijk reveals the disparities in research modalities in the pre and post digital age: what can be achieved with dynamic typography today in contrast to earlier manual techniques? The exhibition attempts to offer a glimpse of how typography may evolve in the future. ”
credits
| a short film by: | Ruben Van Leer |
| concept design: | LustLAB |
| choreography: | Lukas Timulak |
| dancers: | Valentina Scaglia & Lukas Timulak |
| sound music: | Boris Acket |
| filmed at: | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam |
| supported by: | Microsoft, StiFo, AFK, Camalot |
| many thanks to: | LUSTlab team, film crew and participating audiences |
| produced by: | LUSTlab & Truth.io |
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