Digital Movement

Johannes Birringer, Brunel University, London, UK Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jamie Bullock, Integra Lab, UK Tom Calvert, Simon Fraser University, Canada James Charlton, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand John Collomosse, University of Surrey, UK Mark Coniglio, Independent Artist, UK Martine Époque, University of Québec à Montréal, Canada Rachel Fensham, University of Melbourne, UK Lise Amy Hansen, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway Wan Gi Lee, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Tyler Martin, Software Developer, USA Tychonas Michailidis, Birmingham City University, UK Fernando Nabais, Independent Artist, Lisbon, Portugal Sally Jane Norman, University of Sussex, USA Michael Neff, University of California, Davis, USA Doros Polydorou, University of Hertfordshire, UK Stamatia Portanova, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy Denis Poulin, University of Québec à Montréal, Canada Brian Rotman, Ohio State University, USA Thecla Schiphorst, Simon Fraser University, Canada Nicholas Toothman University of California, Davis, USA

"This is an exciting and important book which opens up a fresh and engaging new line of research into 'digital movement'. Its essays are direct, lively and insightful, and the book incorporates rich theoretical perspectives and practical case studies from across a wide range of disciplines, while effectively mixing the historical with the cutting-edge contemporary. A bold and significant new work." - Professor Steve Dixon, President of LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

• Introduction; Nicolás Salazar Sutil and Sita PopatPART I: HISTORIES1. Oskar Schlemmer's Programmatic Gesture Research; Sally Jane Norman 2. Intelligence Behind Movement: Laboratories of Biomechanics and the Making of Movement Utopia; Nicolás Salazar SutilPART II: GESTURE AND THE DIGITAL OBJECT3. Mathematical Movement: Gesture; Brian Rotman4. Virtual Choreographic Objects; Stamatia Portanova 5. catch/bounce: Stack Overflows and Digital Actions; James Charlton PART III: MOVEMENT INSCRIPTION/MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE6. Movement and 21st Century Literacy; Maaike Bleeker 7. Movement Scripts: the Materialisation of Movement through Digital Media; Lise Amy Hansen8. Performativity of Movement: Coding, Segmentation and the Valorization of User Behaviour in the Development of Smart TV Technology; Wan-Gi LeePART IV: TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALITY9. Moving, Withdrawing and the Uncanny; Sita Popat10. Digitising Dance Costumes: a Case Study of Movement and Materiality in iWeave; Rachel Fensham and John Collomosse11. Gestural Materialities and the Worn Dispositif; Johannes BirringerPART V: MOTION, TECHNOLOGY, INTERACTION, PERFORMANCE12. Communication through Haptic Interaction in Digital Performance; Doros Polydorou, Tychonas Michailidis and Jamie Bullock13. I _CARE_US: Flying Robots and Human-Robot Interaction in Digital Performance; Fernando Nabais14. Studying the Impact of Embodiment on Creativity in Computer Tool Use; Nicholas Toothman, Tyler Martin and Michael NeffPART VI: DIGITAL MOVEMENT AS EMERGENT ART PRACTICE15. Practising Choreography: Digital Movement as Emergent Praxis; Thecla Schiphorst and Thomas Calvert16. Dance without bodies: using Motion Capture and Particle Animation to create No-body Movement; Martine Époque & Denis PoulinConclusion: Reflections, Interventions, and the Dramaturgy of Tracking; Mark Coniglio