Digital Movement

This book brings together experts across disciplines to examine the connection between digital technologies and human movement, and to consider the creative and artistic possibilities of technologized human motion.

Autorentext
Johannes Birringer, Brunel University, London, UK Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jamie Bullock, Integra Lab, UK Tom Calvert, Simon Fraser University, Canada James Charlton, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand John Collomosse, University of Surrey, UK Mark Coniglio, Independent Artist, UK Martine Époque, University of Québec à Montréal, Canada Rachel Fensham, University of Melbourne, UK Lise Amy Hansen, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway Wan Gi Lee, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Tyler Martin, Software Developer, USA Tychonas Michailidis, Birmingham City University, UK Fernando Nabais, Independent Artist, Lisbon, Portugal Sally Jane Norman, University of Sussex, USA Michael Neff, University of California, Davis, USA Doros Polydorou, University of Hertfordshire, UK Stamatia Portanova, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy Denis Poulin, University of Québec à Montréal, Canada Brian Rotman, Ohio State University, USA Thecla Schiphorst, Simon Fraser University, Canada Nicholas Toothman University of California, Davis, USA

Inhalt
Introduction; Nicolás Salazar Sutil and Sita Popat
PART I: HISTORIES

1. Oskar Schlemmer's Programmatic Gesture Research; Sally Jane Norman
2. Intelligence Behind Movement: Laboratories of Biomechanics and the Making of Movement Utopia; Nicolás Salazar Sutil
   PART II: GESTURE AND THE DIGITAL OBJECT
3. Mathematical Movement: Gesture; Brian Rotman
4. Virtual Choreographic Objects; Stamatia Portanova
5. catch/bounce: Stack Overflows and Digital Actions; James Charlton
   PART III: MOVEMENT INSCRIPTION/MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE
6. Movement and 21st Century Literacy; Maaike Bleeker
7. Movement Scripts: the Materialisation of Movement through Digital Media; Lise Amy Hansen
8. Performativity of Movement: Coding, Segmentation and the Valorization of User Behaviour in the Development of Smart TV Technology; Wan-Gi Lee
   PART IV: TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALITY
9. Moving, Withdrawing and the Uncanny; Sita Popat
10. Digitising Dance Costumes: a Case Study of Movement and Materiality in iWeave; Rachel Fensham and John Collomosse
11. Gestural Materialities and the Worn Dispositif; Johannes Birringer
    PART V: MOTION, TECHNOLOGY, INTERACTION, PERFORMANCE
12. Communication through Haptic Interaction in Digital Performance; Doros Polydorou, Tychonas Michailidis and Jamie Bullock
13. I CAREUS: Flying Robots and Human-Robot Interaction in Digital Performance; Fernando Nabais
14. Studying the Impact of Embodiment on Creativity in Computer Tool Use; Nicholas Toothman, Tyler Martin and Michael Neff
    PART VI: DIGITAL MOVEMENT AS EMERGENT ART PRACTICE
15. Practising Choreography: Digital Movement as Emergent Praxis; Thecla Schiphorst and Thomas Calvert
16. Dance without bodies: using Motion Capture and Particle Animation to create No-body Movement; Martine Époque & Denis Poulin
    Conclusion: Reflections, Interventions, and the Dramaturgy of Tracking; Mark Coniglio