Butch Rovan Explores Sound and Motion

"Let us imagine a straight line," a new interactive installation by Brown faculty composer and performer Butch Rovan, explores movement, motion, philosophy, and science through image, text, and sound.

The exhibit takes inspiration from two great minds of late 19th-century France — Étienne-Jules Marey and Henri Bergson — and their respective visions of motion and time.

Marey's efforts to measure a beating heart and to capture birds in flight produced the technologies that led to the modern cinema. Bergson's reflections on matter and memory produced a philosophy that re-imagined the relation of mind to body.

The interactive installation invites participants to experience this scientific and humanistic legacy through a series of interactive pieces that explores the idea, and the beauty, of a single human body in motion. The free exhibit is open to the public through Friday, November 6.

Source: Brown University Media Relations
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