Chelsea Space The Life Room 4.11.09 - 12.12.09

Workout: A Digital Response to the Body & Machine Over Five Sessions

David Barnett is a Digital Scenographer with a background in graphic design, moving image and theatre,
since 1991. He has also led workshops, undertaken commissions and residencies for many arts
organisations and funding bodies as well as his ongoing work with the Graphic Design Communication
BA/MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design London, where he has been employed since 2001. David has
also been a long term collaborator both with Montage Theatre Arts and Mem Morrison Company where
he has developed a body of work examining the technical and creative boundaries of working with the
physical, spacial and digital.

For the Life Room David is creating a series of motion-based digital works based on translating
movements of the body while using gym equipment. This will be based on a series of film shoots in the
space where models will be recorded in motion while wearing tracking markers. This material is later
motion tracked in a computer (2d) and the movements of the models extracted and turned into data.
This will be used as a source for driving a series of graphic motion treatments.

During the life of the show the work will grow and the resulting animation sequences will be shown
on a plasma screen in the show space.

David will be working in the space on Friday afternoons and will also be using a range of digital mark-
making techniques using a graphics tablet. Please check The Life Room website, for updates and
information on events in the space which runs until Dec 12.

Session 4

Session 3

Session 2



Session 1

'Come Back William Blake' by Dudley Sutton - reaction by David Barnett from david barnett on Vimeo.

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Session 1 and 2, Session 3 (David Ferry), Session 4 (Bruce Mclean), Session 5 (Dudley Sutton)