Quayola & Memo Akten at the National Media Museum

A revealing study of movement.

Forms

Still image from Forms, Quayola & Memo Akten, 2012, courtesy of the artists

by Quayola and Memo Akten, 2012.

Forms is a digital artwork that responds to the human body in motion. It focuses exclusively on the mechanics of movement, using footage of world-class athletes to illustrate human movement at the extremes of perfection.
Videos of athletes were processed through custom software to create evolving abstract forms that explore the relationships between the human body and its movements through time and space.
This artwork was especially commissioned for In the Blink of an Eye by the National Media Museum, with the support of imove.