Sporting Forms is a digital artwork that reinterprets football games of the World Cup as a performance piece and a series of 3D printed sculptures representing each one of seven matches through the group games, the quarter and semi-finals, and the final itself.

Working with leading sports data company Opta, Sporting Forms uses time-led data of players’ on-pitch positions and their interactions throughout each game of seven World Cup football matches.

Using this positional data, collected on players in real-time throughout each game, a new artwork was produced that uses this data to create a digital performance where the players positions, movements and interactions with other players affect the artwork in 3D and the players become the artists within the work.

SPORTING FORMS was created for “The Pride and the Passion” exhibition at Quad Gallery