Michel Moyse |  Motionpainting
Michel Moyse's web site provides information on his recent motionpaintings, experimental film work, and the Center for Digital Art's Summer Art Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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About Michel Moyse

Michel Moyse’s (b. 1940) recent experimental films and motionpaintings continue to explore his interest in combining traditional two-dimensional artwork with recent innovations only possible through the use of computer technologies and the digital revolution. Often working with multiple projection screens, his work combines abstract elements, narrative, music, sound effects and text to expand and blur the lines between art and film. Meant for continuous viewing on large projection screens or multiple flat screen displays synchronized through timecode playback from appropriate DVD players, his motionpaintings play out to their temporary conclusions, only to loop back to start again in an ever-ending sequence. As Michel said many years ago when he first embarked on these new aesthetic sensibilities, “art making of the future will employ an electronic canvass which will echo the psychological measure of man. It will allow size commensurate with his reach and be responsive to sense. None of this is new, except that it will incorporate motion – i.e. duration – and this introduces new dimensions. But unlike film, this art remains rooted in stillness. And, as in traditional painting (and in spite of duration), it has no beginning and no end. Indeed, its new province may in fact be duration without development – or, put another way, aspects of now in duration.”
Michel Moyse continues his researches in motion painting and digital art through the use of multiscreen imaging techniques, especially the use of Adobe After Effects and multichannel pioneer DVD players . Although motion painting has something of a history – Michel Moyse makes note of various experimental animations which have been done in computer art over the last several decades, in fact motion painting as Michel Moyse understands this word refers to the addition of cutting edge experimental techniques through the addition of time, sound, and motion in what was hitherto understood as a plastic but motionless media. Motion painting, as Michel Moyse understands this, refers to traditional painting modified through motion and sound only possible with the addition of duration or time. This is a cutting edge experimental approach to motion painting and animation because it continues to explore plastic expression based on traditional concerns about form and color. Michel Moyse is an artist who has worked in motion pictures and video production for over forty years, and his recent experimental and cutting edge work – what he calls his motionpainting (some might call it painting in motion) – reflects his concerns for expanding artistic expression using digital art and computer art tools in new and cuttingedge ways. Currently, Michel continues to work on his ‘motionpaintings’ and teaches filmmaking at the Center for Digital Art, a non-profit educational institution he co-founded with his wife Linda. For a sample of work, please access “motionpainting” in the home page.