Robotic Sculpture Development through Appropriated Choreographic Strategies, Facilitating Artistic Exploration of Visual Perception, Object-ness and Symbiosis between Physical and Virtual Media

The Object Permanence series explores our perception of the existence of objects over time, which is fundamental to how we experience the world. By exploiting the perceptual effect of object permanence via graphics and robotic sculpture, the viewer perceives objects over time which do not in fact exist. (Video © Marco Pinter. Photography by Fred Hatt Nick Loewen, edited by Ethan Turpin. Object Permanence I copyright Marco Pinter. Object Permanence II copyright Marco Pinter Nick Loewen.)

The Object Permanence series explores our perception of the existence of objects over time, through graphics and robotic sculpture. In this performance intervention, three dancers move with the installation, integrating its choreography into their own improvisation. (© Marco Pinter with dancers Kaita Lepore Mrazek, Tim Wood and Malcolm McCarthy.)

"Pas de Trois: Adagio" explores an ambiguous boundary between the corporeal and the technological. The work utilizes choreographic strategies from the domain of dance and realized via robotic motors. Each of the three "dancers" is embodied in a different material: a rope, a set of scarves, and an extruded lycra/spandex panel. (© Marco Pinter)