Bodytext

Simon Biggs; Garth Paine; Sue Hawksley

Bodytext

Simon Biggs (Artist), Garth Paine (Composer), Sue Hawksley (Artist)

Edinburgh College of Art

Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

Abstract / Description of output

Bodytext is a performance work, inquiring into human and machine relations, involving speech, movement and the body. A dancer's movement and speech are re-mediated within a digitally augmented interactive environment employing real-time motion tracking, voice recognition, interpretative language systems, projection and granular audio synthesis. The acquired speech, a description of an imagined dance, is re-written through projected digital display and sound synthesis, the performer causing the texts to interact and recombine with one another through their subsequent compositional arrangement. What is written is affected by the dance whilst the emerging recombinant descriptions determine what is danced. A recursive agency is established between the human performer and the machine based environment. This work questions and seeks insight into the relations between kinaesthetic experience, memory, agency and language. Bodytext was developed whilst the artists were in residence at the Bundanon Trust, New South Wales, and the VIPRe Lab at the University of Western Sydney.

Premiered at Critical Path, Sydney, Australia as part of the SEAM 2010 festival
Performed as part of the Figures of the Visceral Conference, September 2010, Inspace, Edinburgh University, UK
Performed as part of the Dance Live Festival, October 2010, Banchory, UK
Performed as part of the Gaming the Game conference, April 2012, University of California Davis, USA
Paper presented as part of Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
Paper presented as part of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, June 2013, Sydney, Australia

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Critical Path, Sydney, Australia (SEAM 2010 Festival); Inspace, Edinburgh, UK (Figures of the Visceral Conference); Banchory, UK (Dance Live Festival); University of California Davis, USA (Gaming the Game conference) plus 2 conference paper presentations
Media of output	Online
Size	indeterminate
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2010
Event	SEAM 2010 Festival - Sydney, Australia Duration: 1 Sept 2011 → 30 Sept 2011

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

interactive art
Generative grammars
Dance
electronic music
granular synthesis
Speech recognition

Access to Document

Bodytext portfolioSubmitted manuscript, 1.99 MB

http://www.littlepig.org.uk/installations/bodytext/index.htm

1 Paper

Bodytext essay
Biggs, S., Hawksley, S. & Paine, G., 7 Jun 2013, p. 1-3. 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

File

3 Participation in conference
2 Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition

Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media
Simon Biggs (Speaker)
2 May 2013
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
19th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Simon Biggs (Speaker)
13 Jun 2013
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Gaming the Game
Simon Biggs (Interviewee)
12 Apr 2012
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition

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Biggs, S, Paine, G & Hawksley, S, Bodytext, 2010, Performance, Critical Path, Sydney, Australia (SEAM 2010 Festival); Inspace, Edinburgh, UK (Figures of the Visceral Conference); Banchory, UK (Dance Live Festival); University of California Davis, USA (Gaming the Game conference) plus 2 conference paper presentations. <http://www.littlepig.org.uk/installations/bodytext/index.htm>

Bodytext. Biggs, Simon (Artist); Paine, Garth (Composer); Hawksley, Sue (Artist). 2010. Critical Path, Sydney, Australia (SEAM 2010 Festival); Inspace, Edinburgh, UK (Figures of the Visceral Conference); Banchory, UK (Dance Live Festival); University of California Davis, USA (Gaming the Game conference) plus 2 conference paper presentations: Event: SEAM 2010 Festival, Sydney, Australia.

Research output: Non-textual form › Performance

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Bodytext

Abstract / Description of output

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Access to Document

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Research output

Bodytext essay

Activities

Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media

19th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Gaming the Game

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