The 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, MOCO'16, took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in July 2016 and, as you can see at the picture above, we had the pleasure to celebrate a small afaao-reunion there.
The team's media artist Martin Schulte, composer Lukas Tobiassen, and choregrapher Foteini Papadopoulou presented an installation version of the afaao's main idea in the symposium's venue, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall - M2.
as far as abstract objects - the installation
In this interactive
installation a camera hanging from above captures the visitors’ movements on a
defined area. By acculumating a number of video frames into one, they produce
‘movement paths’ which reveal the interrelation between spatial and temporal
aspects, fundamentally inherent in movement.
Additional abstraction
effects, selectable on an interface by the viewers themselves, allow
visualization of the movement patterns in different ways. As for the
interaction between movement and sound, the video feed is analyzed on the
quantity of motion by frame-differencing: The more the visitors move, the more
impulse they give to trigger the sound.
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Further, Foteini Papadopoulou and Martin Schulte contributed to the symposium with a long paper titled:
Movement Notation and Digital Media Art in the
Contemporary Dance Practice: Aspects of the Making of a Multimedia Dance
Performance
This paper presents
some of the aspects from the creative process leading to the multimedia dance
performance ‘as far as abstract objects’ (‘afaao’).
The creation of that stage work was at the same time an extensive experimental transdisciplinary
research, a laboratory for movement analysis and movement composition. In
particular, this paper will elaborate on the relation and collaboration between
two of the fields involved, movement
notation and media art. In ‘afaao’
fundamental principles from movement notation were paired with possibilities
from modern media technology. The common ground they shared was the
transformation process that movement undergoes when working with notation as
well as when working with media art. The objective of this collaboration was to
explore the complex phenomenon of movement and to create a work of art that
would communicate the research revelations in a visually engaging way with the audience,
offering alternative views on the movement’s dynamic structures.
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