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Schiller, Gretchen | |
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An introduction to current research in dance and technology:suggestive systems and traceforms | |
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Dance vocabularies in the digital
era alter and juxtapose our temporal and spatial perceptions of movement with telematic and/or interactive movement encounters on the internet; interactive optical, sonar, or magnetic systemsresponding to our bodily intelligence to initiate, direct, or inform an art or dance work; and intelligent staging with computer vision and motioncapture. These systems have allowed us to diminish the gap between experienced movement and its visual representation rendering visible immediate relationships between our imprints of movement in space. Motion capture, interactive computer vision and manipulation are also offering possible means of not only movement recognition and creation but movement communication for non specialized audiences. Movement patterns, once visually traced are like a trajectorial map of the displacements of time, space and effort. The orchestration of these trajectories in space reveals the continuous negotiation of the dynamics and harmonic variation inherent in movement. Graphic movement can be distributed into alternative networks of digitally transmitted communication and perhaps the user or mover,can begin to interact and learn from the suggestions offered by a system and enter into a reciprocal real time or time delayed communicative experience. |
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| Biography Gretchen Schiller is currently teaching at the University of Montpellier 111 and researching interactive real time video systems in dance works. She is a Canadian currently beginning a new interactive movement installation entitled "Trajets" with Suzan Kozel supported by the Banff Centre of the Arts, the Canada Council, and the Stentor Foundation. She received her MA in dance from the University of California, Los Angeles and studied video art with Sharon Daniel at in Cambridge at MIT. Her previous work can be consulted at http://caiia-star.soc.plym.ac.uk/PEOPLE/index.html. |
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