Arnold's ideas

Hi, this is a short introduction of myself on this blog. I will react on some of the ideas already posted and also will (where possible) try to get some discussion going on.

First of all, i found it very inspiring to see so many talented people together in one room. I’m convinced that there will be some interesting results coming out of this Masterclass! Although i was there for only two days now, i think i got sort of an idea of each others fascinations and inspirations. I hope you have the same with me (or else just ask!)

About the different ‘plans’ then. The ideas and experiments of Lotta, Ambra and Filip regarding projections on the ‘contemporary’ body seem very interesting to me, because they closely relate to the ideas i had before applying for this Masterclass; i really want to use ‘my’ motion tracking system in a live performance / choreographic setting (ideally with live and spatial sound-/videoprojections). I definitely would like to contribute and co-develop these ideas into a project proposal!

Furthermore, i would love to make my moderate experience with motiontracking available to anyone interested. Maybe it can be used in the proposal of Olga. And for sure the ideas posted by Michael; i like the idea of working on this abstract conceptual level regarding light, space and motion (like regarding videoprojection as thrown light!)

For all our ideas, i think it is very important to develop them on different ‘levels’ simultaneously, so that we can come to a project-proposal that follows the guidelines as stated in Bram’s last email:

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Conceptual level. This is where the blog should be used for the most i think. Like posting references to interesting projects to get things going on in our heads (thanks Bram for this new york dance piece!). And also maybe historic examples etc.

I will try to post some things soon. In the mean time you should see:
- the video example that michael mentioned in his post (the ‘Man with Mirror’ video on YouTube, example of Boris)

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Working out and prepare experiments to be done next workshop. This is i think VERY IMPORTANT. I really think we all should prepare our experiments in advance of the next workshop, at least on paper. In my experience, working with technology, tends to be very time-consuming, and we only have a few days each workshop...

I would like to work out experiments regarding:
-motion tracking in general. Working with camera-tracking, but maybe also different sensors like pressure- or bending sensors in clothing.
-live projection on bodies. How can we make movents of a body in space trigger movements/displacement of videoprojection in space, for instance?

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Get some idea of what you want to do with your part of the budget, so that there won’t be any ‘doubling’ of expences. For now this is maybe not clear at all, at least not for me, but i do already have some ‘wishes’ ;-)
For instance, i would like to spend something on:
-Eobody2 USB 8 SensorBox (http://www.eowave.com/products.php?prod=39)
maybe i want to buy this in advance of the next workshop already.
-different Sensors
-Overhead expences (traveling, accomodation)
-Materials

Ok, that’s it for now,
Have a nice weekend!

Arnold