2008년 4월 22일 화요일

8) Kinaesthetic Traces Across Material Forms : Stretching the Screen's Stage

Kinaesthetic : kinetic art + Aesthetic

- Trajets (2000)
is an installation inspired by dance & visual art.
kinaesthetic relationships are choreographed or choreomediated, among a specific architure of screens & video images for the general public.
It is co-produced with The Banff Centre for he arts as part of Canadian Creaive Innovation Initiative.

1. Loie Fuller : body screenographies
2. Etienne Jules Marey : movement mapping
( more detail contents, next time... I'm so busy...)

- Cinedance
Description (http://www.cinedance.org/)
Cinedance = Videodance = Screendance


Trajets is ineractive kinaesthetic sculpture...

2008년 4월 21일 월요일

6) Materials vs Content in Digitally

EX)
Klaus obermaier : media artist, director, composer & lecture

- D.A.V.E(1998-2000) - www.exile.at/dave
- vivisector(2002) - www.exile.at/vivisector



Why Materials?
- is not 'controlable' by the performer.
- was not terribly emotional.
- the visual stay within a clearly defined realm.
- abstraction, not narrative.

1. Material-driven : Abstraction, Dance, Making materials the subject
2. Contents-driven : Narritive, Theatre

2008년 4월 2일 수요일

5) Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with the Live Performers

Motion tracking means like this 'motion capture' & 'Motion sensing'.

Motion tracking is using the cameras (attached to computers) focused on human in motion,
data can be collected and processed for any number of purpose. Artistic applications include stage & installation art.


- Motion capture
About motion capture system, the Author deals with the 'Vicon' in this topic. 'vicon' are usually used in motion picture industry to create animated characters with realistic human movements.
This system involves 12-24 video cameras and needs wearing attached reflective balls on the body. And, collection the points of moving is calculated by computer. With rare exception 'Vicon' is highly accurate motion capture system but it is not used in real time. Because of many cameras, special costume requirements & quantities of data. The system is unwieldy and in a sense, overkill.


- Motion sensing
This term was coined by Frieder WeiB in 2002 to describe like a EyeCon. The Author said the EyeCon is an excellent tool for the dancers & choreographers to control music & sound samples with their movements. It is intuitive and easy to use.



Interaction

It is that we must think of interaction primarily as a psychological phenomenon, rather than a technical one. One certainly does not need cameras and computers to be interactive. Interactivity depends on a certain degree of looseness(?), or openness(?) in the artistic material, which allows for convincing exchange to take place.

< *looseness, openness : maybe this is the needs to more interaction between artists, artists & audience, audience, artists & audience & computer system. >



Conclusion

According to this Author's expressions, interaction is a feeling you can achieve in a performance setting. It relates to spontaneity, openness and communication. And It does, however, offer a good reason to explore new ways of employing technologies such as motion tracking.