Plaid - Dancers

What this video is

Released June 2019 on Warp Records as part of the Polymer album campaign, 'Dancers' arrives at a moment when legacy IDM artists were engaging with emergent real-time 3D and game-engine visual culture. Plaid — comprising Ed Handley and Andy Turner, central figures of the early-1990s Warp 'Artificial Intelligence' movement — here deploy motion capture and CG abstraction to explore the album's central tension between…

Why it matters

A landmark intersection of IDM musicality and post-human visual art, 'Dancers' demonstrates how Warp-lineage artists absorbed deconstructed club and real-time 3D aesthetics in the late 2010s. The use of motion capture choreography as primary narrative content — rather than performance or story —…

The director

Los Angeles-based director, visual artist, and musician. Co-founder of creative studio Actual Objects with Claire Farin. Background in architecture and electronic music. Works with digital design tools including video game engines to produce speculative…