human to dancer interaction: designing for embodied performances in a participatory installation

+Human-to-Dancer

Interaction

Designing for

Embodied

Performances in a

Participatory

Installation

David A. Shamma

Renata M. Sheppard

JürgenSchible

+Autonomous Expressionism by me

Shamma, D. A. Autonomous expressionism: a framework for installation directed network

arts. International Journal of Arts and Technology 2, 1 (2009), 62–81.

+Media is often consumed and reused

+We actually do this in an everyday

context

+Mobisprayby JürgenSchible

+Remix for everyone

+Telepresence in Dance by Renata Sheppard

+Need Feedback? Add motion.

+Ecosystem

+Laban Movement Analysis

+Dancers

Christy Funsch Erin Mei-Ling Stuart NolSimonse

+Graffiti Dance

Allow people to create political/news charged graffiti

Allow local and world images and texts

Simplify the technology, focus on the work

Have Meaningful and Observable Phenomena: not random or

free flowing. Movement from dancers to reflect activity on the

projection. (Think Richard Coyne Tuning)

Have Professionals in a close interaction with participants

Score Creation from Log Analysis (which didn’t quite happen)

+Berkeley Art Museum 2010

+Dancing via a public display

+Rehearsal

+Performance

+Controlling Relationships

+Controlling Relationships

We can’t quite see the relationship between

what were doing and what the dancers

are doing but I think that might be the idea

of it. If you knew, if you could directly see

the connection between the dancing and

the controlling then you might start to try

to manipulate it. But right now we cant

quite do that. (A1)

+Who’s in control?

+Who’s in control?

They thought we were controlling the

images, once they learned that they

were controlling it was interesting to

see their delight in that and how it

brought them to a new place of play

with the phones and then they got a

little bit more engaged and excited.

(D3)

+Body Moving

+Body Moving

“I want to just start moving my

body so much even though I

know it doesn’t make a

difference.” (A3)

+Not afraid

+Not afraid

I think this audience was definitely

not afraid of approaching us to

find out how everything worked,

ya the seemed to enjoy figuring

out they could make us do stuff.

(D1)

+Amateur-to-Professional interaction

+Amateur-to-Professional interaction

We worked really close to the

people watching the performance

and installation and we were able

to hear their own responses to

what was going on. (D3)

+Movement is not a proxy.

+ Thanks!To my fellow artists (Renata

&Jürgen). Also to our amazing

dancers Christy Funsch,

NolSimonse, and Erin Mei-Ling

Stuart; their contribution, advise, and

patience during many a rehearsal

section.