In this 3D animated ‘music video’, motion capture is used to give awkward life to singing, dancing, simulated bodies. Inspired by haunted-house animatronics and the experience of dancing alone to one’s personal ‘inner soundtrack’ — in this case, Billy Idol’s hit song “Eyes Without A Face” — these fragmented, polymorphous figures eerily evoke male adolescent sexual anxiety, fantasies of digital corporeality, and the body horror of the ‘uncanny valley’. By Sean Capone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this 3D animated ‘music video’, motion capture is used to give awkward life to singing, dancing, simulated bodies. Inspired by haunted-house animatronics and the experience of dancing alone to one’s personal ‘inner soundtrack’ — in this case, Billy Idol’s hit song “Eyes Without A Face” — these fragmented, polymorphous figures eerily evoke male adolescent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-94436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-animation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122600,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122600","url_meta":{"origin":94436,"position":0},"title":"Dancing Anymore NSFW","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"19\/04\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Megaforce \/ IS TROPICAL \/ DANCING ANYMORE from iconoclast on Vimeo. Dancing Anymore is the first single from Is Tropical\u2018s upcoming album \u201cI\u2019m Leaving\u201d, out May 20th on Kitsun\u00e9!video directed by MEGAFORCE. PLS NOTE that it contains nudity Dancing Anymore NSFW was originally published on The Curious Brain","rel":"","context":"In "all other stuff"","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":150468,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150468","url_meta":{"origin":94436,"position":1},"title":"Dancing with death","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"07\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Dancing with death, Miles Cleveland Goodwin, via","rel":"","context":"In "all other stuff"","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_38b996798b393662bf0653664a42eaaf_6a5411e5_500.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":118756,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=118756","url_meta":{"origin":94436,"position":2},"title":"Mexico","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"07\/02\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dancing by Nancy Elizabeth So addictive! from Dancing by Nancy Elizabeth Mexico was originally published on The Curious Brain","rel":"","context":"In "all other stuff"","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":118758,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=118758","url_meta":{"origin":94436,"position":3},"title":"Mexico","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"07\/02\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dancing by Nancy Elizabeth So addictive! from Dancing by Nancy Elizabeth Mexico was originally published on The Curious Brain","rel":"","context":"In "all other stuff"","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":109949,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=109949","url_meta":{"origin":94436,"position":4},"title":"Dancing In The\u00a0Dark Dancing in\u2026","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"23\/10\/2015","format":"video","excerpt":"Dancing In The\u00a0Dark Dancing in the Dark - EP - Hot Chip Directed By Kieran Evans.(Source: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In "all other stuff"","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/109949.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/109949.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/109949.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/109949.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/109949.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":111061,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=111061","url_meta":{"origin":94436,"position":5},"title":"Keep On Dancing Keep On\u2026","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"01\/10\/2015","format":"video","excerpt":"Keep On Dancing Keep On Dancing - Single - We Are the City Created by We Are The City Sinnbus(Source: https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/)","rel":"","context":"In "all other stuff"","block_context":{"text":"all other stuff","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94438,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94436\/revisions\/94438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}