Body Paint is a visual instrument which enables you to paint on a virtual canvas with your body. Playing on our natural instinct to express ourselves through movement and dance, Body Paint interprets our physical gestures into evolving compositions. Body Paint is about the sensational experience and interaction captured through motion and the energy of the body.

Body Paint was created in 2009 and has been shown in a multitude of exhibitions, hospitals, correctional facilities and public spaces around the world.

Body Paint connects with our human subconscious desire to create by inviting visitors to interact with the artwork using the body as a tool.

What is important about Body Paint is the action of movement, the sensation of “playing” – not the final output. Memo compares this to the motivation to play an instrument like a piano, where the goal is not always to compose or record.

Body Paint originally came about as a live performance. The work utilizes a 1ch HD projection, infrared camera, infrared emitter and custom software.

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Memo Akten is an artist working with computation as a medium. He explores the intersectionality between nature, science, technology, ethics, ritual, tradition and religion. His artwork combines critical and conceptual approaches into the relationship of form, movement and sound.

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