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Empire consisted of a four-screen continuous surround animation of a virtual monument running the “course of empire.” It is inspired by the 1836 paintings of Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole’s series. This piece uses a cenotaph drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée the 18th-century French visionary architect as its source. It slowly decays and morphs from pink to blue, from sunrise to sunset. 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The initial phase of the project was to re-perform and then interpret Brown’s Accumulation. The intentionally erratic and spastic, irrational and violent Sifuentes performance was recorded in the motion capture lab of Columbia College, for use as raw data for the creation of a new animated choreography. Sifuentes’ male and significantly gendered movements are being combined and recombined to form an irrational “rational” system of movement, inserted into a hybrid avatar digitally designed by Hart. 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