Black Body Radiation
Degree work Media Art and Design (M.F.A.)
Mark: 1.0 and Summa Cum Laude
Awarded with the Bauhaus Graduation Scholarship
Nominated for the ‘Media Art Award 2016’; Bauhaus Universität – Weimar
Multimedia performance which combines animation, video, sound, video mapping and stage design. It contributes to build an interdisciplinary bridge between science and art taking as a starting point the blackbody radiation experiment made by Max Planck in 1900, which is the beginning of quantum mechanics.
CONCEPT
Physicists mean by a “body” and “radiation” something other than dancers. Our multimedial performance illustrates the interplay of meanings. Black Bodies are not only understood in the performance objectively and physically, but also subjectively; as a metaphor into a limited space, into which photons, atoms, human mind and human bodies act and interact – in other words: dance.
The light is the energy that vibrates and oscillates inside this space, inside the blackbody cavity it collides against the walls, pursues not to be confined and heats the body.
The scenes take place onto semi transparent screens placed at an angle. The performers interact with projections illustrating characteristics of light in different proportions. The dramaturgical curve starts at the Planck’s blackbody, clips the chemical effects of light on photographic paper and stretches up to the interaction of people in urban areas.
The phases of the Performance reflect the mutability over the conception of body: in physical experiments, he is an object, in each subject he is made of flesh and blood, as a city, it contains the body movements of people, lights, emotions and collisions.
BLACK BODY RADIATION develops a hybrid language, able to connect science and performing arts rather than to explain scientific theories in the usual words and to provide them with attractive pictures. The scientific revolutions that have moved the human spirit, modern society and science, lay the foundation for such a bridge of communication. With this, scientific discoveries can be exposed to people in an artistic way, so that another vision of science is possible.
