“Rapture” by Brian Knep
Simulation of a short piece commissioned by Joe Ketner of Emerson College. It runs on a 60′ x 40′ LED Wall on the facade of the newly refurbished Paramount Theater in downtown Boston. To create the repeated frog motif, I filmed Xenopus Tropicalis every day for 2 months, then manipulated the images into a seamless animation of a tadpole kicking into adulthood and cycling back to youth.
This work was generously supported by the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, the LEF Foundation, Boston MA, the MacDowell Colony, and, of course, Emerson College.
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