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Future work

As future work, Laban descriptors analysis should be implemented in the project. In detail, a script could be used to calculate the Kinematic or Effort descriptors of the movement. Nice project implementation for script Script 0I: Do not touch me would be to make the intensity of the motion of the letters that move randomly when touched, go according to the body movement. For example: when the weight or the velocity of the movements are big, the randomness of the letters should be more aggressive.

To accomplish this a script made by Juan Alonso could be implemented in the preexisting scripts. Alonso has created two classes in his script: “Kinematic descriptors” and “Effort descriptors”. The Kinematic class calculates the velocity, acceleration, and jerk, while the Effort class calculates Weight, Time, Space, and Flow according to Larboulette and Gibet formulas.

https://www.notion.so/Slides-31d980020f154361b7e59c4cbf9836fa

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Implementation

Four scripts were created for the realization of this project. All of them were written on p5.js editor using p5.js which is a Javascript library. In terms of interaction, two of the scripts are working with the mouse while the other two are using posenet’s body detection.

https://p5js.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA3-k9mnLHs&t=2729s&ab_channel=TheCodingTrain

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//fill(random(50,200), random(100, 150), random(50, 200))

*if this line was not commented*

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-look me loo

-look look

-me look at

-at me loo

*friends experimenting with the look at me script*

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I guess the algorithm can always be tricked?!

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Inspiration/acknowledgements

What served as an inspiration to the project was Maya Man and the Google Creative Lab’s project: “Body, Movement, Language: A.I. Sketches with Bill T. Jones”.  In this project art, technology, identity and body are explored when connected to each other. An interactive installation was created for the purpose of this project: “Naming Things: Approaching 21” with the guidance of the choreographer Bill T. Jones. 

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/billtjonesai

https://mayaontheinter.net/

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Syllabus

The idea of the project is a collaboration between body and mind. Movement and words. Humans use both tools in order to communicate with each other, and make clear what they want or not. Using computer vision a broad spectrum of experimentation arises while combining these tools. In this project two scripts are created in order to test a positive and a negative linguistic statement with our body. The scripts can be described as embodied sketches, since the collaboration of body and words are creating a visual output. 

Script 0I: Do not touch me

Touch is a powerful and emotional action that can create both good and bad experiences. In the context of the project we are investigating the notion of touch, when it is unwanted. The notion of touch has become in the COVID-19 years rare and abstract. Through computer vision the project aims to activate the body movement, as the subject is “touching” digital objects. The question is what are our limits to touch? What happens when someone is stating “do not touch me”?

Script II: Look at me

Some could say that eyes can also touch. Eyes also give away what our attention is sat on. When someone is asking for our gaze, they are looking for our attention. What do we do in such a case? Do we turn our head to see what is there, or not?

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#posenet #movement #embodied_ineraction

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LOOK AT ME! Finaly! YEYY <3

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apparently my friend’s spices have a body^^

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