Abstract
This paper begins to describe a new kind of database, one that explores a diverse range of movement in the field of dance through capture of different bodies and different backgrounds - or what we are terming movement vernaculars. We re-purpose Ivan Illich's concept of 'vernacular work' [11] here to refer to those everyday forms of dance and organized movement that are informal, refractory (resistant to formal analysis), yet are socially reproduced and derived from a commons. The project investigates the notion of vernaculars in movement that is intentional and aesthetic through the development of a computational approach that highlights both similarities and differences, thereby revealing the specificities of each individual mover. This paper presents an example of how this movement database is used as a research tool, and how the fruits of that research can be added back to the database, thus adding a novel layer of annotation and further enriching the collection. Future researchers can then benefit from this layer, further refining and building upon these techniques. The creation of a robust, open source, movement lexicon repository will allow for observation, speculation, and con-textualization - along with the provision of clean and complex data sets for new forms of creative expression.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2016 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Volume | 05-06-July-2016 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450343077 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 5 2016 |
Event | 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2016 - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: Jul 5 2016 → Jul 6 2016 |
Other
Other | 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2016 |
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Country | Greece |
City | Thessaloniki |
Period | 7/5/16 → 7/6/16 |
Keywords
- Annotation
- Clustering
- Community
- Crowd-sourcing
- Database
- Machine-learning
- Motion capture
- Movement
- Open-source
- Repository
- Translation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Software