< back Berlin Skin Berlin Skin creates the aura of a city through textures and motion. Animating the layers of a city, memory is encoded into its walls as the continual patter of urban energy pushes us forward in time. Buildings and textures come to life through animation techniques- paint on glass, drawing, and digital animation. Using photographs from different buildings in Berlin which captured my imagination. Cities change sometimes so subtly. In this piece one can view changes, almost like a time lapse filming of a flower coming into bloom. The animation also serves as a way to mark the inevitable march of time, the patter of activity and movement in a space, the resonance seeping into the walls around us, especially in contemporary Berlin. With Berlin Skin I hope to give the audience a feeling of being in a place through animating the environments of a city. As I am focusing more on texture than "image" I hope to create an aura of the city more than a graphical representation. Therefore outside projections are ideal. What happens when one projects one city skin onto another? Kim Collmer Kim lives in Germany traveling between Cologne, Berlin and Schwaebisch Hall where she teaches Media Design. She makes animated films using stop motion animation and 2D digital techniques. She also creates underwater films (including one underwater animation). She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited internationally in festivals and exhibitions, with reviews published in the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine. Contact Information kcollmer@yahoo.com LiveBox Gallery, Chicago> Microcinema International, San Francisco www.kimcollmer.com