Archive or Alive: The Experimental VR Digital Collection of Shou-You LIU’s Shapde 5.5
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Dispositifs of Sensory Augmentation
Presentation Title:
- Archive or Alive: The Experimental VR Digital Collection of Shou-You LIU’s Shapde 5.5
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Abstract:
Archive or Alive: Digital Archiving Development of a Solo Dance by Shou-Yuo Liu was a project dedicated to applying contemporary digital technology to the methodological construction and R&D of non-material archiving technique concerning performers’ body movement. Breaking away from previous practice of single-perspective recording, this project provided a sweep panorama of the performer’s whole body, insofar as to give the spectators a 3D stereo view of the performer’s body movement. This paper assumes that, apart from collecting existing objects, this archiving technique can be applied to comprehensively and objectively preserving works from different periods and the body languages that have not been systematically handled by the other archiving techniques yet, so that we can channel unprecedentedly vigorous energy of art into our archival display with new technologies of data restoration and presentation.
Premised on the aforementioned assumption, this paper seeks to investigate the digital technology R&D and technological culture analysis accomplished in “Liu’s Solo Dance”, thereby explicating how this new performing arts genre transformed ephemeral art into a virtually archived work affording timeless admiration.
