An Idea...
Now, I am probably going to explain this really badly, but bear with me and shout if I am too vague....
I was at a techy/geeky meet up thing last week called bathcamp, where we heard a speaker talking about arduino.
Now, I am not an electronics person, so most of the technical detail of this talk was a bit above my head. However, the basic premise seemed to be that arduino is a kind of circuit board that has the capability to take real world stimuli from all kinds of sensors and convert it into something a computer can use for all sorts of purposes, and vice versa by taking a computer program and converting this into a real world action (whether this be blowing bubbles anytime anyone tweeted with a particular hash tag - quite a cute device - or something more complex). It is supposed to be a very cheap, very easy way for complete amateurs to build all sorts of things.
This made me think: could we create an installation (perhaps for the IOCT) that took information collected from sensors as someone dances in a particular area and converted these into some sort of multimedia representation of the dance? This could mean movements being represented by sounds that reflect the speed, height or texture of the movement (legato/staccato), a more graphic representation or even being converted into words to create some form of poetry.
Without worrying too much about the technical coding side of things, I wondered if anyone wanted to brainstorm here with me about how such an installation might work? It is a very hazy idea at the moment, but could be a bit of fun - whether we manage to build it or not! If any of us do want to build it, I am sure we could find the technical expertise to do it either here in Bath or in Leicester, so this is just a purely imaginative brainstorm....
Anyone up for that? What do you think? How might a dance "look" in other art forms?
I was at a techy/geeky meet up thing last week called bathcamp, where we heard a speaker talking about arduino.
Now, I am not an electronics person, so most of the technical detail of this talk was a bit above my head. However, the basic premise seemed to be that arduino is a kind of circuit board that has the capability to take real world stimuli from all kinds of sensors and convert it into something a computer can use for all sorts of purposes, and vice versa by taking a computer program and converting this into a real world action (whether this be blowing bubbles anytime anyone tweeted with a particular hash tag - quite a cute device - or something more complex). It is supposed to be a very cheap, very easy way for complete amateurs to build all sorts of things.
This made me think: could we create an installation (perhaps for the IOCT) that took information collected from sensors as someone dances in a particular area and converted these into some sort of multimedia representation of the dance? This could mean movements being represented by sounds that reflect the speed, height or texture of the movement (legato/staccato), a more graphic representation or even being converted into words to create some form of poetry.
Without worrying too much about the technical coding side of things, I wondered if anyone wanted to brainstorm here with me about how such an installation might work? It is a very hazy idea at the moment, but could be a bit of fun - whether we manage to build it or not! If any of us do want to build it, I am sure we could find the technical expertise to do it either here in Bath or in Leicester, so this is just a purely imaginative brainstorm....
Anyone up for that? What do you think? How might a dance "look" in other art forms?
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Permalink Reply by Christine Wilks on -
I'd be interested in this, Kirsty, but at the moment my schedule is just chock-a-block. For one thing it sounds like it could be an interesting way to extend the remix - aka R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX www.remixworx.net - into the real world - remixing reality! I like the idea of dance too.
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Permalink Reply by Kirsty McGill on -
Cool :-) Remixing reality sounds a much more succinct way of phrasing it too!
Know what you mean about chock-a-block schedules... although I theoretically have a nice relaxing week off this week (with a website to finish building, the bus station twitter stream to keep flowing, job hunting for Rich....). I'll chuck some ideas around when they come to me & we can chat whenever things are a little calmer.
Busy is good though! I hope everything is going well with you besides?
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