How can we represent dance in an alternative form?
The journey began with a happy accident. Last year I went to Kate Ware’s performance “Unstruck”. “Unstruck” explores in movement and sound a process of live formation, like stones in a river, or sound through a tunnel. It is about energy and physical exchange. The piece was shown in conjunction with another exhibition Clifford Ross: “Water | Waves | Wood”. I was fascinated by the performance and tried some exploration to remix the picture and movement. The result was just surprising.
- Style transfer based on deep learning:
These works are implementations of “A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style” by L. Gatys, A. Ecker, and M. Bethge in August 2015, a method for transferring the artistic style of one input image onto another using convolutional neural network.
- Unstruck by Kate Weare: (keyword: wave, energy)
Original content image from the screenshot of documentation video from Unstruck, and style images from the exhibition Clifford Ross: Water | Waves | Wood:
A more dynamic gif version:
Other explorations:
- Folding by Shenwei dance arts: (keyword: fold)
Original content image and style image:
- Folding by Shenwei dance arts: (keyword: fold)
Original content image and style image:
- Folding by Shenwei dance arts: (keyword: fold)
Original content image and style image:
2. Photo Mosaic based on keywords image search
I integrated the mosaic algorithm here https://github.com/cinemast/OpenMosaic with google image custom search. The keywords are crawled from the different websites about each piece, currently I’m not able to tell the accuracy about these keywords.
- Folding by Shenwei dance arts: (keywords: flesh, fold, shenwei, fabric, paper etc.)
- Tool Is Loot by Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona:
Keyword: Cultural specificity, deviously beautiful, giggly young women, jagged path, drug addiction, intervention
Number of division: 21
Original :
- Gif version of Tool is Loot, playing with different resolution and keywords:
Keywords: unnecessarily heavy eye, disingenuously anti-classical way, problematic new works, special guest stars
Number of devides: 47
Original :
Keywords: male Season fairies,tense dramatic action,sublime ballerina type
Number of devides: 42
There are many more mosaics you can see here: http://restage.streamgao.com/wsearch/loadmore?loadmore=See+previous+examples. They are made collectively by the users of my thesis restage.
My thesis is about meta data/meta media crawling for dance and generation of the photo mosaic. You are welcome to see this post and try the demo.
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