Wanting to go see the fourth edition of Graphology in Antwerp (the show opens only next weekend), I end up at Explosition instead. The exhibition in the Museum of Ixelles is only half interesting but the catalog is nice. I also like the video registration of Human Brush, a performance by the Brussels street-drawing phenomenon Bonom. The piece renders his deliberately antiquated pseudo-prehistoric imagery more than bearable; making the connection between dance, drawing and the digital obvious.

Photo: Dominique Vankan (all rights reserved)

Other than it being made with Quartz Composer (“a node-based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in Mac OSX for processing and rendering graphical data”), I cannot find much about how the piece actually works. I never worked with this tool so it is hard to imagine. Tracking? Video? Sensors? MM thinks the performer is probably a professional dancer. I’m convinced it is Bonom himself.

Video: human_brush.mov