Abstract
Embodying Sound is a performing art project that integrates dance, music and digital technology, it explores a real-time sonification of human motion, captured by inertial sensors, using the XSens system. First and foremost, it is not a demonstration of technical virtuosity, but an attempt to put technology at the service of imagination and creativity. In a world dominated by computation - tending to a dystopic future of "artificial intelligences" (Minsky, 1998) we tend to forget that present-day machines cannot really think or feel; Computers do not have purposes, do not love or understand reality the way a living organism does (c.f. António Damásio 2017). In this presentation, we explore how technology can act as a mediator between dance and music. The quest of this performative process is to investigate the sound signature of the body. Here we discuss how such phenomenological experience might challenge self-consciousness and the perception of identity. Furthermore, within a more general approach, we question how does this artistic and technological interaction stimulate the expansion of artistic expression, which might result in new aesthetics.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | ARTECH2017: |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Arts |
Editors | Carlos Sena Caires, Jorge C. S. Cardoso |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 1-4 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-5273-4 |
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Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts: Digital Media Art Ecosystems - Braga, Braga, Portugal Duration: 23 Oct 2019 → 25 Dec 2019 http://2019.artech-international.org |
Conference
Conference | 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts |
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Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Braga |
Period | 23/10/19 → 25/12/19 |
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Keywords
- Digital technology
- Embodiment
- Human motion
- Performance
- Sound signature