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ART+COM Studios | The Invisible Shape of Things Past

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The In­vis­i­ble Shapes of Things Past are para­met­ric trans­la­tions of movies into space. Sin­gle frames from a film se­quence are lined up in space, ac­cord­ing to the cam­era move­ment with which they were shot. Through this trans­la­tion of sin­gle frames con­sist­ing of sin­gle pix­els (pic­ture el­e­ments) into space, ob­jects of vox­els (vol­ume el­e­ments) are gen­er­ated. Back­ground and mo­ti­va­tion: In­flu­enced by the emer­gence of film and multi-ex­po­sure pho­tographs, cu­bists and fu­tur­ists dis­in­te­grated the lin­ear rep­re­sen­ta­tion of space and time in their pic­tures and sculp­tures. They aimed at find­ing ways to rep­re­sent move­ment and in­tro­duced the dis­play of mul­ti­ple times and per­spec­tives of one ob­ject. At the same time, artists like Fischinger, Ruth­mann and Eggeling de­vel­oped the “ab­solute film”. Its mis­sion was to free it­self from the dis­play of every­thing rep­re­sen­ta­tional, to pro­duce ab­strac­tion with cin­e­matic means ac­cord

The Invisible Shapes of Things Past are parametric translations of movies into space. Single frames from a film sequence are lined up in space, according to the camera movement with which they were shot. Through this translation of single frames consisting of single pixels (picture elements) into space, objects of voxels (volume elements) are generated. Background and motivation: Influenced by the emergence of film and multi-exposure photographs, cubists and futurists disintegrated the linear representation of space and time in their pictures and sculptures. They aimed at finding ways to…

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