Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced, an interactive web project launched at Ohio State University on April 1, 2009, is one of the winners in the 16^th Annual Interactive Competition announced in the March/April issue of Communication Arts. The magazine, the largest international trade journal of visual communications, sponsors five juried creative competitions annually, including one in interactive media. A jury of creative professionals selects the winners.

With William Forsythe’s choreographic masterwork of visual complexity, “One-Flat Thing, reproduced,” as the research resource, the Synchonous Objects web project presents an original collection of screen-based visualizations (video, digital artwork, animation and interactive graphics. They reveal the interlocking systems of organization in the choreography and open the door for cross-disciplinary investigation of the implications these structures might have for a wide collection of disciplines, from architecture to cognitive science.

Synchronous Objects is the product of a three-year collaboration among a group of interdisciplinary Ohio State faculty and graduate student researchers from the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, the Department of Dance, and The Forsythe Company. In addition to Dance, university departments represented in the collaboration are Design, Geography, Computer Science and Engineering, Statistics, and Architecture. The project team also included three international collaborators. The web project is both an on-line exhibition and a research space, inviting audiences to interact through an array of creative tools, expressive animations, and information graphics.

Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced, is co-produced by The Forsythe Company with the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University.

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