Center for Digital Art

Here are two stillframes (front and side views) of a recent motionpainting titled "Absence". This work, created to memorialize Renee Good, a woman murdered by ICE agents on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7, 2026, incorporates digital media and 'real' elements (in this case, chair, oils, acrylic canvas, etc.). M.o.s., 2026.
To see the motionpainting, go to my website michelmoyse.com and select 'Composited Examples' in top menu.

ABOUT MOTIONPAINTINGS

‘Motionpainting’ is a word I use to describe much of the work I’ve been doing over the last three decades: by it I simply mean artwork that incorporates duration yet remains rooted in ‘stillness’. In spite of the fact that these works are time based, they are not narrative in content or form. As in traditional painting, they have no beginning or end and are meant for continuous viewing. The new province of this art may in fact be duration without development – or, put another way, aspects of ‘now’ in duration.

TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY PALETTE

The computer is an authoritarian tool – it gives you a framework that invites freedom, then locks you in with zeros and ones (Picasso once remarked that he had no interest in computers because they only give you answers). It also distances you from ‘materiality’ and significant sense interaction (although this is changing). Be that as it may and ignorant of where this activity would lead, over the years I found the recombinant powers of the computer on any given task or work or project more and more intriguing. I began to wonder, could a ‘work of art’ not ‘move’ and still be distinct from film or animation? What did the ability to use ‘layers’ offer? Could they act as ‘echoes of memory’? I slowly started to feel my way toward the ‘motionpaintings’ I’ve been doing for the last thirty years - work that includes traditional practices yet incorporates digital media anchored in concerns, expectations, and goals that we know as ‘painting’.

STUDIO OPENING
On August 25, 2024 (5 pm to 7 pm), there will be an official public opening to my artwork/studio on Pleasant Valley Road in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Everyone welcome. In the meantime, the studio will be open by appointment or chance during the Marlboro Music School season every Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm. To make an appointment, call/text 802 258-8081 or email [email protected]. Or just stop by during those days/times.

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3 iterations of Red Cross (with Meme Perretier) motionpainting. Note that the work can be seen in more or less broad daylight, and 'materiality' is enhanced thru the use of oil paints 'supered' on the projection. 2023.