Removed (2016) explores processes of progressive translation, abstraction and distortion. Musical improvisation is captured as choreographic experience, then encoded into digital animation and 3D-printed sculptural forms. The performances are transformed by their conversion into visual media: sound is removed, movement is abstracted from human anatomy into non-representational geometry, and time is rendered as space. Removed creates a dialogue between the intuitive and the formalized, and invites questions about the nature of translation and the absences it conceals.

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Christopher Burns is a composer, improviser, and multimedia artist whose works explore collage, layering, and the use of generative algorithms to form and develop both musical and visual elements. His work creates a dialogue between complexity and clarity, incorporating densely braided, rapidly shifting materials alongside gradually evolving, linearly directed textures. He is currently scholar-in-residence at the Digital Media Commons.