Question 1

What is BAS STUDIO?

Accepted Answer

BAS STUDIO is a studio that designs, builds, and deploys physical work — CNC sculpture, CAM fabrication, projection mapping, and realtime TouchDesigner media. It was founded by Conner Ward.

Question 2

What is A STUDY IN MOTION?

Accepted Answer

A STUDY IN MOTION is a chronophotography relief installation by BAS STUDIO: a single runner photographed in profile and broken across depth, milled into a stone-like panel and read by raking light, with a depth-mapped figure projected onto the relief in real time.

Question 3

Where and when was A STUDY IN MOTION shown?

Accepted Answer

It was installed at Gray Area Grand Theater in San Francisco for a BYOB event on April 7, 2026.

Question 4

How was A STUDY IN MOTION fabricated?

Accepted Answer

The relief toolpath was generated in Fusion 360 and cut on a gallery-scale ShopBot CNC in one pass with no tiling. A hardware MIDI controller drove a TouchDesigner network that stacked dithered passes, depth-derived isophotes, and pixelation thresholds, keystoned live onto the milled relief, and the look was graded in DaVinci Resolve.

BAS STUDIO — A STUDY IN MOTION