After wrapping up the Shanghai auto show in 2017, I rushed back to Australia to direct an Adobe Remix piece to open the Adobe Symposium at the Sydney Opera House. With AI, and in particular, Adobe Sensei being major topics of interest at the symposium, we wanted to explore the theme of how creatives will interact and integrate with artificially intelligent tools in their workflows. Keen to push the boundaries (and make our lives appreciably more difficult), we decided that to do this theme justice we would incorporate live data visualisation with a dance and music performance piece. Our data sources were the dancer’s movements (via a prototype camera-less motion tracking suit from Rokoko) and the live midi input from our composer/pianist.
We’ve always been interested in live capturing human movement and blending it with another data source like music… much the same way synesthesia can intertwine senses to create a unique association. We felt this interplay was an apt way to represent the Adobe platform, which to us represents a hub of creative input which has become increasingly diversified. This creative relationship of inspiration, interplay and ‘bootstrapping’ becomes a collaborative process leading to a result which is greater than the singular components.
You can read more about the execution on the S1T2 Behance. Really big thanks to our choreographer/dancer Naomi Hibberd, composer/performer Gavin Ahearn, cellists Freya Schack-Arnott and Hanna Oblikov.
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Creative Director
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S1T2
Some extracts from the openFrameworks app built for the piece
