Form Constant

Form Constant is a collaboration between dancer/choreographer Hope Goldman and her partner, visual artist/programmer Andrew Moffat. It was performed live in March 2010 in the Studio Dance 1 Concert at the Krannert Center the Performing Arts as Goldman's Master's thesis show.

To perform the real-time tracking and effects, the piece uses infrared lighting and a custom-modded, $40 webcam along with custom software running on the GPU.

The choreography was influenced by the ideas of fluid dynamics and the energetic quality of the imagery.

Music by Ben Frost.

Hope Goldman is a choreographer, performing/video artist, and teacher currently based out of Chicago where she is on faculty at Olive Harvey College. She has been a guest artist at Washington and Lee University and Iowa State University. Her choreography and video work has been presented throughout the Midwest as well as several areas along the East coast at venues including the The Tank and Chez Bushwick in New York. She can be contacted at hopeisdancing@gmail.com or at http://www.hopegoldman.com.

Andrew Moffat is a software developer and visual artist who enjoys experimenting with and developing new ideas. He can be contacted at andrew.robert.moffat@gmail.com.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• dance
• solo
• contemporary
• modern
• fluid
• CFD
• GPU
• CUDA
• technology
• projection
• opengl
• infrared
• light
• UIUC
• masters
• interactive
• nvidia
• Ben
• Frost
• electro

[funkyphreakout]

Nice work! What's the song?

[hopesicle]

@funkyphreakout Thank you! The song is Híbakúsja by Ben Frost. I layered the beginning part of it with another song of his, though.

[McSplat]

@LogInAnders fuck off troll

[leech]

Processing? OpenFrameworks?

[psychotropicgrove]

Im guessing though it's called Form Constant, the dancer isn't on peyote :P

[grassnose]

i <3 dance

[chougland1]

frost and y'all should share a contract and make money on us googley eyed marvels... first UIUC, next Microsoft.... don't settle for less than 5 mil! but really, no really!

[SparkieT4]

Great Job! :)

[CuteLilBunny89]

That was just amazing! I'm so happy I got to see it in real!

[LogInAnders]

Reddit is the shit and I mean that litterally.

[omer26]

awesome! really nice work guys!

[backseatjesus]

man, this is so awesome you guys. wish I could have seen it live!