Electronic Rituals, Oracles_Meditation #1

Tempo Temple

For this meditation, I am activating a perspective where I see dancing and drawing as a way of thinking and as a way of producing and embodying knowledge.

Tempo temple is the first prototype for a video-performance where I try to draw a temple inside a temple which is inside another temple which is inside another temple and so on…

Tempo meaning: the rate or speed of motion or activity; pace.

Time.

if

the colonizer neoliberal capitalistic project is enchanting our times in order to build a giant world-wide magic circle where there is the illusion of space for just one temple,

Is it possible to play a game inside that circle that builds a temple inside a

a temple, a white temple, an invisible temple, the white snake temple, a dancing and drawing temple that

creates a temporary space where an encounter makes our perception of time enough modified, so that we can see it from outside?

is it possible to do it alone? am I alone when doing it?

when drawing a line with a random dance inside a machine learning temple, which forces are part of the code? What am I embodying? What am I touching in considering all its layers of creation and intention?

and which forces would never be into this temple? If the temple were empty, what would be inside of it?

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The video was created interacting with a webcam connected to p5.js using PoseNet. It was based in an example by Daniel Shiffman called “PoseNet example using p5.js to draw with your nose”. I basically changed the nose for both wrists and draw lines instead of circles. Find the code here.

For the future of the project, I’d like to try to draw a line that disappears after some time; think about a better setting, specially for the background; and find a way of creating it in high resolution.