Also predictably, commercial success, popular imagination, and the reactive originalities of new artists wrenched the movement from the critics' shepherding grasp.
Having created a show controller, the artists could choreograph animations, reactive audio, interactive scenes, and smoke sequences.
Dancers hang from the ceiling, manipulating the reactive visuals behind them their gestures while a video artist guides the show through each animation. .
As creative partners with the festival this year, we helped United Visual Artists transform the main stage into a reactive phototactic fixture, Muti Randolph metamorphose the Sahara dance tent, and J. Spaceman and Jonathan Glazer unveil a standalone light and soundproof cathedral-like oasis.
Japanese artist Omote used facial tracking tech to map reactive light "make-up" onto his subjects.
The Dutch artist was a fantastic draftsman, his line as rhythmic and reactive as a cardiograph reading.
Some years ago, Meyer Schapiro argued that Picasso discovered the unity of his experience through the very process of transformation; it was only through the tireless exercise of the artist's hand and mind, through the ceaseless effort to be "sensitive, reactive, responsive," that the artist would express his essential wholeness.
The kinetic sculpture, designed by Australian artist Alex Sanson, is almost unceasingly in motio, as it responds to its own reactive programming.
Leading up the charge is Japanese artist Daito Manabe who used the technique in his video for Nosaj Thing's "Eclipse/Blue" which featured reactive, minimalist graphics.
With a team of all-star collaborators including artist Takcom and choreographer MIKIKO (who's worked extensively with J-Pop sensation Perfume), the projection-mapped, reactive graphics bring a new dimension to Nosaj Thing's minimalist electronica.
