/Tools of the trade

• inspiration
• storyboard 1
• 4000 words

first presentation.

For a while now I want to work with ballet dancers. I want to study their movements, the ways that their body can shape to when they are dancing. I would love to create a digital way of making an interaction between human movement and technology.

I started looking at what is a tool? A tool is in essence an extension of the human body, to do a humans job or to manipulate a medium. Al machines are tools because they function as an extension of the body.

I want to create a tool that becomes one with the body and controls how the extension of body to body would be. A tool that makes it possible for the viewer to really connects physical with all of the movements of the dancer. This to strengthen the emotions of the viewer during the dance.

I want to put sensor stickers on the body-parts of the viewer that gives a tingle while the dancer moves body-parts like armpit, neck, hips and knee. So the viewer feels a motion/tingle on the place that the dancer moves at the same time. Also I want to zoom in and enlarge the movement of the dancer on the screen behind her. I think this could really intensify the experience of the dance physical and emotional.

This makes that the tool becomes a connection between the dancer, public and the movements of the dancer.

Things I want to experiment with:

-Does it create a bigger awareness of movement?

-Does it create possibility’s like maybe the public would really connect with the choreography of the dance and would even remember some parts because they really experienced the movement?

-Does the emotions get enhanced by the tingle they reseave from the sensors.

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notes research;

The language of movement.

movement is not material. Even do I want to use movement as a tool. The movement of the body. The body who used to had to make those movements to create the work that the machines are doing now a days. I want to create awareness of the work that a human body makes. When it is doing the work a machine is doing now a days. The viewer is sitting and watching. It feels the vibration of the movements that the worker is doing.

I would like to take movement very literally as a process solely of motorization.

Today a work of art ought to be alive like an organism.”- lygia Clark)

Movement in art.

The return of the repressed

Capturing emotion through camera. Using this emotion to evogue a bigger one.

To create a organic way of using technologie there are many ways of expressing with the body.

Dialoque of body’s. The dialoque between a moving body and a viewing body. The ways that the moving body can have effect on a not moving body.

Using movements of somebody else to become aware of the movements of himself.

To discover the sufficiency of pure relationships as a language capable of profound emotional power using movement.

How the tool changed your practise? (lifestyle and design, fotografie.) Storyboard en 5 zinnen.

Mijn tool:

In my photography I always play with reality, what is reality and how can you distort it. I a always inspired by the shapes that the human body can form to and ballet dansers

My tool creates a connection between the movements of the human body.

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My concept: Technology has always been seen as something that is unhuman. This because it overtakes the working labor that human used to do. A machine is an extension of the human body and my tool shows the way that technology can be more like the human body. Messuring movements and passing them on by connecting.

A really humanly thing to do for a tool. This process makes that my tool grows a identity. An identity that connects between a danser its viewer and the movements of the danser. The tool will give a signal with vibrations that the viewer feels on the same place that the dancer puts in motion. This movement I will magnify on a big screen behind the dancer.

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