A Webcam Interface for Somatic-Technological Dance Experiences

Symposium:

• ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Body Interfaces

• A Webcam Interface for Somatic-Technological Dance Experiences

• Joana Martins
• Todd Cochrane
• Isabel Valverde
• Ana Moura Santos

Venue(s):

• Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR China

• Abstract (short paper)

  This paper discusses a recent mixed reality interface developed within the collaborative art-technology project Senses Places, a participatory performance environment. The present webcam interface works by motion detection algorithms created through the frame difference method and responds to a critical need from the somatic-technological dance approach. Captured by a webcam, the participant’s movements are exported into a 3D Virtual World where they trigger pre-set animations in an avatar, according to choreographic improvisation principles. Senses Places fosters mixed reality performance events that gather performers and visiting physical and online participants from all over the world in a virtual place, where they engage kinaesthetically in new shared embodied mediated experiences towards expanding awareness to cross geographic, cultural, disciplinary, artistic and human boundaries.

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