Kinetitude #1 grows out of a long-standing photographic practice exploring light and movement through the camera, the body and automation. For many years I have recorded the body in motion: pinhole and camera obscura images, light traced over time, photographs made without looking through the viewfinder, cameras guided by programmed rules. In Kinetitude the camera watches the body instead, and turns its movement into drawing and sound.
Kinetitude is an app I have built in which you draw and compose at the same time. Moving closer makes the lines larger and the sound louder; a pinch makes the paint wet; stillness grows a bloom while an arpeggio plays. The rules come from my years as a dancer, written into code and handed back to the body.
For this work I printed one of my own sessions at full scale on archival paper, then painted over it by hand. The printed lines record a performance; the paint answers them in the studio. Painting over the print is the point of the work: it makes each one a one-off that cannot be printed again.
Kinetitude #1 is the first in a series, and is first shown at The Stockroom, Kyneton. The Kinetitude app and a later work in the series, Kinetitude #3, are in The Familiar Unknown: Art in the Time of AI, at the Burwood Library gallery, Deakin University, where visitors can draw with Kinetitude and print their own sessions.
