Based on Gunnar Johansson’s work on the perception of human bodies in motion, Joining the Dots - a public art commission for  Kerry Conty Council - explores how our minds can extrapolate from such minimal information as a cluster of moving dots to divine complete human figures in motion. We worked with the choreographer Cindy Cummings and with Dr. Phil Kelly of CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies to realise a ‘dot-film’ with school children from Ardfert National School, exploring this universe of dots, in which particles, people and planets can coexist.

The final films are made up only of moving white dots on a black background, which a spectator might take for stars or particles, until closer observation reveals many human forms in movement, like constellations come to life.

The project went on to become the foundation of the “Dot Universe”, a multi-projection installation first shown as part of “Hall of Mirrors”. We continued our exploration of biological motion with the project “Particles or Waves?” for St. Patrick’s School in Cavan.