Choreography and Design in Interactive Environments

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Choreography and Design in Interactive
Environments
SERENDIPITY SYNDICATE 4

• Professor Mick Wallis and Sophia Lycouris
• with final words by Alec Robertson

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Professor Mick Wallis
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Emergent Objectswww.emergentobjects.co.uk
School of Performance and Cultural
Industries University of Leeds Performance /
Design Process / Product
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Meta-levelProfessor Mick Wallis, (Principal
Investigator) University of LeedsProfessor
Christopher Baugh, University of LeedsProfessor
David Hogg, University of LeedsJoslin McKinney,
University of LeedsDr Sita Popat, University of
Leeds Alic Baylis, University of Leeds Alec
Robertson De Montfort University SNAKEDr
Sophia Lycouris, Nottingham Trent UniversityDr
Philip Breedon, Nottingham Trent UniversityTracy
Cordingley, Nottingham Trent UniversityJamie
Billing, Nottingham Trent UniversityDr Sita
Popat, University of Leeds SPIDER-CRAB Shadow
Robot Company Professor Mick Wallis, University
of LeedsDr Sita Popat, University of
LeedsProfessor David Hogg, University of
LeedsDr Sophia Lycouris, Nottingham Trent
University HOVERFLIES Dr Jennifer Sheridan
Derek Hales, Huddersfield University Scott
Palmer University of Leeds Alice Bayliss,
University of Leeds
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Performance / Design Process / Product
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VIDEO CLIP EMBODIED KNOWING
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DESIGN PROCESS ISSUES EMBODIED
KNOWING contemplating embodied
performance ..and finding a new body for the
robot TECHNE BODYWORK rehearsals of deep
feelings through body sculpting METAXIS SEMIOSIS
THROUGH INSTALLATIONS TO DESIGNS words from
body work into marks into sounds composed into
installations
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PROJECTION EMBODIED SIMULATION from CAD and
physical mock-ups into embodied
prototyping and prototype testing from
using the product to re-embodied
evaluation loosening bodies and bodily
relations HABITUS
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SPIDER-CRAB
Maquette to convey eventual scale of SpiderCrab
(photo pixelwitch)
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SPIDER CRAB OBJECT to date it has one
limb.. currently a vision system ..hence green
bandwill be multi sensory. .movement is
randomly generated but bias is introduced
according to the quality of the dancers movements
using Laban Effort Protocols. ....think of it
as being a system which becomes complex when a
human agent join it. Professor Mick Wallis
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VIDEO CLIP SPIDER-CRAB
Mickel Smithen and SpiderCrab (photo pixelwitch)
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Dr Sophia Lycouris
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SNAKE OBJECT to date comes from ideas of
engagement with an audience..and challenging
ideas choreography.without compromising the
artistic..finding out what is useful to apply
and solve problems. it works in an
improvisational way. did not want this object
to have predictable behaviour .hence
connections with complexity
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SNAKE OBJECT .the stimuli that triggers
interactive come from different areas around the
objectthe object decides and negotiates the
different stimuli in in order to respond .it
is an object that supports the user .the viewer
the audience to explore it helps the users to
find something out rather than having a specific
movement or shape. I am interested in breaking
the boundary of the performance and the
audience.. Make the audience dance rather than
sit.
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VIDEO CLIP SNAKE
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SNAKE OBJECT I am interested in breaking the
boundary of the performance and the audience..
..make the audience dance rather than sit. It
is not for really specialised users like the
ballet dancer as was seen here although that is
good too..but it is an object that it should be
used by different people. Dr Sophia Lycouris
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INTELLIGENTCITY Proposal ..dealt with 4D
design in space in relation to dance and
architecture ..create and interactive
environment for users of a shopping mall in
Cambridge ..installations in the fabric of the
building draw attention to features of the
architectural space to create new experiences
for users and more interest. Dr Sophia Lycouris
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INTELLIGENTCITY digital visual embedded into
the building fabric and responsive to users
movements showing architectural features..
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INTELLIGENTCITY digital visual embedded into
the building fabric and responsive to users
movements showing architectural features..
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INTELLIGENTCITY digital visual embedded into
the building fabric and responsive to users
movements showing architectural features..
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Alec Robertson
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Relationships with artefacts matter.
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COMPLEXITY
Human-Object Symbiosis
Human-Object Symbiosis
AUTONOMOUS OBJECTS
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Software
Mechatronics
Mechatronics
Software
Line of power enhancement
Manual Tools
Instruments
Physical
Informational
Line of tool invention
..we have choices to make Alec Robertson
AUTONOMOUS PEOPLE
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.symbiotic relationships are a way forward Alec
Robertson
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CONCLUSION ..this is a snapshot ..of artefacts
that are beginning to move.be adaptable and
responsive. ..it is about putting inthe
cultural perspective of the performance artist,
which is absolutely crucial from my perspective.
.if we are going to design new systems and
artefacts lets get in there at the beginning and
make them aesthetic and kinaesthetic and
meaningful, along with useful. Alec Robertson