Second Skin
3-Channel Video Performance, 2019
30 min
Second Skin is a digitally mediated performance in which layers of physical and virtual experience are overlaid through a process of wrapping the body with tape and virtual mark-making. Compressing space and time, the performance of the physical subject reveals the tangibility of the body and its simultaneous existence in virtual and material realms.
Full video here.
Virtual Reality Experience
Run time- 15 min
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
Char Stiles Projections on the large chamber.
This view of the installation has a transforming projection of Sudanchu's photograph at the center. The brilliant cyans and magentas pulsate like the circulatory system of a body but are in fact tree branches. Sudanchu's Photography reflects his interest and study of the human body. Char and Sudachu collaborated on the projection which activates a pulse of tree branches.
Sudanchu Shekhar
Char Stiles
Anna Henson's webcam is actually not one webcam but two webcams. One webcam is inside the body of the installation and captures the bodies that spontaneously perform for it. The performance is then projected onto a membrane in the front of the room and captured by the second webcam and projected back onto the chamber of the installation where the performance is happening. This interaction is happening in real time, and the performer can see the changes of light. The recursive nature of the interaction is tangible immediately spawning more play and performance.
One important note: We are not recording the participants through these webcams.
Upon entering Powder Room, this translucent organ, a gauzy interior pulses with asymmetrically rhythmic color.
Close-up of Char's projection on the walls of the installation. This figure was captured at CMU's Panoptic Studio as a point cloud and manipulated by Char. Emily's organic seats were crafted for the space with the intention of creating a communal space to observe the projections and have a conversation.
Char Stiles
www.charstiles.com
Emily deGrandpré
emilydegrandpre.com
Close-up of Char's projection on the walls of the installation. This figure was captured at CMU's Panoptic Studio as a point cloud and manipulated by Char. Emily's organic seats were crafted for the space with the intention of creating a communal space to observe the projections and have a conversation.
Char Stiles
www.charstiles.com
Emily deGrandpré
emilydegrandpre.com
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from two people tracing the front side of their bodies. The result of which is a sculpture of the space between the two bodies.
Video Documentation
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program using ropes and pulleys to extend and explore the length of my body.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program using ropes and pulleys to extend and explore the length of my body.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program using ropes, springs and pulleys to reflect and reorient the length of my body.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program using ropes, springs and pulleys to reflect and reorient the length of my body.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program using ropes, springs and pulleys to reflect and reorient the length of my body.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program using Vive controller tethered to a stick to trace the upward facing surfaces of my body.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Image from a virtual sculpture that was created from tracing my body in a VR drawing/design program while spinning on a office chair.
Dimensions are indeterminate
This is an image created in a Virtual Reality drawing/design program. There are three separate procedures that intersect each other in both the virtual and physical space. I was honored to perform Procedures with artist Tsohil Bhatia.
Dimensions are indeterminate
This is an image created in a drawing/design program. This procedure was done while standing on a ladder. The ladder in the physical space imposes rules, form and boundaries in the virtual space.
Dimensions are indeterminate
Shadow and Dust, performance at Powder Room May 4, 2018