Posted in interactive dance floor, tagged guardian dance maths on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Creative calculations
Working with dance and music has opened my eyes to the dramatic potential of mathematics
‘The wonderful thing about such collaborations is that you are never sure where they will take you. As we spent a morning learning the tango, my mathematical eyes couldn’t help seeing a dance full of geometry. Follow the lines drawn [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I’d like to try getting my existing tracking system to control a flash file.
I found this site recently, when I was looking around at flash sites for inspiration in the last project.
http://www.screenvader.com/root.html
I love it!
First off I love the movement of the animation in the initial navigation. I think this would work so well in [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been thinking about new ways to gather data from the dancing bodies. The movement I want to use to trigger an animation is the ‘boleo’. It’s the movement that results from a sudden change of direction in the energy of the lead. This can be back to forward horizontally, which sends the follower’s [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was looking at some rhythmnic gymnastics videos on youtube the other day (some are posted on my dance film page), and it got me thinking about the motion path of my feet, I thought about trying to get hold of a ribbon and attaching it to my feet to see if it would produce [...]
Posted in dance film, interactive dance floor on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Except from ‘Deleuze, Altered states and film’ By Anna Powell
‘For Guattari, aesthetics are viral in nature, being known ‘not through representation, but through affective contamination’. In its broader, verbal usage, to affect is to ‘lay hold of, impress, or act upon (in mind or feelings)’ or to ‘influence, move, touch’. Affection as noun is ‘a [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The following are some excerpts from ‘The Cybercultures Reader’
By David Bell, Barbara M. Kennedy
(p286) As Haraway writes ‘late twentieth century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed.’
(p289) Starting from Haraway’s initiatives, Sandoval suggests that ‘cyborg consciousness can be understood as the technological embodiment of [...]
Posted in dance film, interactive dance floor, interactive dance floor music on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Synopsis for my masters project masters_synopsis.doc
Posted in interactive dance floor on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I can’t beleive I’ve been working with this light projection project for a year and not mentioned James Turrell (an artist who works exclusively with light and atmosphere) in the blog once…
I first became aware of his work in my teens, when I went to his exhibition somewhere in London. It was a square room [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor, tagged amsterdam, itango, tangomagia on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the obstacles I was aware would have to be overcome, was that the performance space was the dance floor on which a hundred or more people would be dancing for several hours before the performance began. I had been worrying for some time about the logistics of this. How I would be able [...]
Posted in interactive dance floor on January 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Working with the program, trying to show all the different possibilities we wove together a rough narrative within the dance. It’s a shame we hadn’t done this before I started putting the sound piece together because it would have been a good starting point to know how the mood of the dance was going to [...]
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