Digital Movement Essays in Motion Technology and Performance [Hardcover]

This book brings together experts across disciplines to examine the connection between digital technologies and human movement, and to consider the creative and artistic possibilities of technologized human motion.Introduction; Nicol?s Salazar Sutil and Sita Popat
PART I: HISTORIES
1. Oskar Schlemmer's Programmatic Gesture Research; Sally Jane Norman
2. Intelligence Behind Movement: Laboratories of Biomechanics and the Making of Movement Utopia; Nicol?s Salazar Sutil
PART II: GESTURE AND THE DIGITAL OBJECT
3. Mathematical Movement: Gesture; Brian Rotman
4. Virtual Choreographic Objects; Stamatia Portanova
5. catch/bounce: Stack Overflows and Digital Actions; James Charlton
PART III: MOVEMENT INSCRIPTION/MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE
6. Movement and 21st Century Literacy; Maaike Bleeker
7. Movement Scripts: the Materialisation of Movement through Digital Media; Lise Amy Hansen
8. Performativity of Movement: Coding, Segmentation and the Valorization of User Behaviour in the Development of Smart TV Technology; Wan-Gi Lee
PART IV: TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALITY
9. Moving, Withdrawing and the Uncanny; Sita Popat
10. Digitising Dance Costumes: a Case Study of Movement and Materiality in iWeave; Rachel Fensham and John Collomosse
11. Gestural Materialities and the Worn Dispositif; Johannes Birringer
PART V: MOTION, TECHNOLOGY, INTERACTION, PERFORMANCE
12. Communication through Haptic Interaction in Digital Performance; Doros Polydorou, Tychonas Michailidis and Jamie Bullock
13. I _CARE_US: Flying Robots and Human-Robot Interaction in Digital Performance; Fernando Nabais
14. Studying the Impact of Embodiment on Creativity in Computer Tool Use; Nicholas Toothman, Tyler Martin and Michael Neff
PART VI: DIGITAL MOVEMENT AS EMERGENT ART PRACTICE
15. Practising Choreography: Digital#D