TROPE
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Codex Installation exhibited at St James church, Dry Doddington, UK 2013
TROPE is a creative collaboration between contemporary artists Carol MacGillivray and Bruno Mathez. The Anglo-French team celebrates motion as a metaphor for being, through breathing life into inanimate objects. The artworks are playful and hybrid, made using an immersive system of concrete animation called the D-Scope® where time is literally choreographed. Trope create audio-visual, kinetic worlds where an audience can move freely, encountering the art in a synaesthetic and immersive way. These are mixed reality, embodied artworks that cannot be fully comprehended viewed on a computer screen; ‘You have to be there'... The artworks have a mesmerising simplicity that belies their underlying complexity. TROPE represents a combination of unique talents; blending animation, audio and music with computing, crafts and engineering. The D-Scope® reflects the artists' love of movement synthesized with sound, using objects as metaphor and exploring the Gestalt principle of Prägnanz, where the..