The Gesture Lab is specific attempt to generate a notation from choreomusical gestures. Within the scope of this lab is the implementation of certain quantitative methods, that can be applied to the research of human gestures in a performative context.
Dance as an artistic practice is a multilayered phenomenon. It is a historically specific practice; it constitutes bodies; it depicts expression forms; it develops specific skills in bodies transgressing the dance’s realm. This project puts dance practices center stage to investigate the human body’s multilayeredness as place and source of agency,revealing their multi-layered manifestation in multiple layers of rendering.
Sample of raw date of motion capture:
Pelvis 1: Left Pelvis Front
Pelvis 2: Right Pelvis Front
Pelvis 3: Left Pelvis Back
Pelvis 4: Right Pelvis Back
LeftLeg2: Left Knee
LeftLowerLeg2: Left Ancle
RightLeg2: Right Knee
RightLowerLeg2: Right Ancle
Thorax1: Sternon up
Thorax2: Sternon down
Thorax3: Left Shoulder
Thorax4: Right Shoulder
Thorax6: Back, Right Side
LeftArm2: Left Elbow
LeftArm3: Middle Left Upper Arm
LeftLowerArm2: Left Wrist
RightArm2: Right Elbow
RightArm3: Middle Right Upper Arm
RightLowerArm2: Right Wrist
Head1: Left Forehead
Head3: Left Head Back
Head4: Right Head Back
Sample of cluster notations:
Experimental notation resulted from the analysis of the motion capture.
MOCO is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the use of computational technology to support and understand human movement practice (e.g. computational analysis) as well as movement as a means of interacting with computers (e.g. movement interfaces). This requires a wide range of computational tasks including modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information but also an interdisciplinary understanding of movement that ranges from biomechanics to embodied cognition and the phenomenology of bodily experience.
The 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing Conference took place 22-24 June 2022 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Adrián Artacho and Leonhard Horstmeyer presented the SmoothOperator: A Device for characterizing Smoothness in Body Movement.