Centri-Petal
time-based & mix-media art
Qixin Zhang, Dec 2022
I am interested in the “in-between” of natural/organic/physics movement (in this case, water movement / turning movement / glass reflection) and technological/synthesis/computational movement (slit-scan program, light changing pattern). How water/waves/light/reflectin move/ how pixel move.
Experiment & exploration of a workflow – integrate Japanese ink painting skill suminagashi (including the process, the result) / other live image making, and visual for live performance.
set-up:
mounted camera – cake stand – laptop – touchdesigner – projector
night version:
slit scan has an element of time: glass with smooth light changing pattern
strobe light, with sound
change light direction
day version
suminagashi : With ink and water spread out, it creates a figure-ground relationship and temporal relationship. slit scan :direction of the movement and time.
result on paper:
Special thanks: STUDIO of Creative Inquiry, Prof. Golan Levin, Prof. Nica Ross, Kyle McDonald, Matthias Neckermann