Employing the technique of 3D animation on infinitely advancing particles and mathematical formulas that allow particles to choose their direction, speed of movement, and their tendency to cluster or separate from the group, the animator poses only one question.
The question is eternal.
To migrate or not to migrate—that is the question now!
Authors / Production
Author(s): Vesna Mačković
Production: ARKTIK - The Institute for the Future
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Concept / Description
The animated video work ‘To Migrate or Not to Migrate’ has been inspired by a perpetually relevant dilemma—and today more than ever: what should we do when peaceful coexistence is threatened? The Hamlet-like self-questioning of many people, as well as their decisions, appear from a mathematical perspective to be either random choices or those determined by the effect of a magnet carried by the energy of the human mass. The dilemma embedded in these assumptions becomes an enduring cyclical circulation that, it seems, has neither beginning nor end.
In this short video, the animator presents the movement of large clusters of abstract geometric particles that periodically define their motion collectively and then individually. Simultaneously, the particles in the waves appear not to decide independently about their direction of movement; rather, they surrender to the magnetic force exerted by the larger mass of particles of their type, moving periodically in a mathematically strict and rectilinearly calculated manner.
Employing the technique of 3D animation on infinitely advancing particles and mathematical formulas that allow particles to choose their direction, speed of movement, and their tendency to cluster or separate from the group, the animator poses only one question.
The question is eternal.
To migrate or not to migrate—that is the question now!
Quotes
To migrate or not to migrate—that is the question now!