Video Installation Seeks To Rouse Viewers from Passive Perceptive States
Dezeen writes about Italian designer JoeVelluto's art installation M.A.S.T. (Modulo Abilitativo Sensoriale Transitivo or Transitive Sensory Living Module).
As the image and diagram below show, visitors to this installation can watch the following video performance from many angles and different positions:
The installation contains a video performance by Marco Chiurato that challenges viewers to rouse out of their passive perceptive states and encourages them to interact with the space and sensations on offer in the performance. The sensory experiment urges participants to evoke an alternative understanding of their surroundings via their senses and allows them to be both actors as well as spectators while they challenge their "aliveness" through M.A.S.T.
Here's a view of the installation and the different viewing positions. Visit post on Dezeen for more images:
What I like about this architecture is that it compellingly invites different viewings. Not because there is nudity (although, I'm sure that would compel some), but because the construction itself is such an interesting structure to explore.
The notion of an ambient, free-willed audience is nothing new in dance or performance art, but installations that call out for playful experimentation by more than the daring are few and far between.
I like how the music is somewhat vague and eerie in juxtaposition with the video. After starring at the architecture with the figure changing positions, I started to question wheter I was looking at a frontal or birds-eye view.
The Kinetic Interface blog on Great Dance starts with the premise that by focusing on the body and movement we can better understand, engage with, and contribute to many of the technological and scientific changes that are reshaping our daily lives.
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What I like about this architecture is that it compellingly invites different viewings. Not because there is nudity (although, I'm sure that would compel some), but because the construction itself is such an interesting structure to explore.
The notion of an ambient, free-willed audience is nothing new in dance or performance art, but installations that call out for playful experimentation by more than the daring are few and far between.
I like how the music is somewhat vague and eerie in juxtaposition with the video. After starring at the architecture with the figure changing positions, I started to question wheter I was looking at a frontal or birds-eye view.
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