Making meaning with machines somatic strategies, choreographic technologies, and notational abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff lens

"Using a well-known and successful dance and performance method, the authors describe how avatars and robots can be designed to be more comfortable with these technologies"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: LaViers, Amy, author (author), Maguire, Cat, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009863829606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Electronic Resources
  • Prelude: Opening with Embodied Perspectives
  • Introduction: Inviting Engineers into Movement Studies
  • I. Making Meaning through Movement
  • 1. Noticing Movement: Meaning, Measurement, and Experience
  • 2. Studying Movement: Somatics, Choreography, and Notation
  • 3. Constructing Movement: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens
  • II. Describing Movement with an Embodied Taxonomy: The BESST System
  • 4. What Is Moving? The Interconnection of Body Parts and Action (Body)
  • 5. Where Is the Movement? Spatial Fiducials for Movement (Space)
  • 6. When Is the Movement Happening? The Temporal Perception of Movement (Time)
  • 7. For Whom Is the Movement? The Relationship between Mover and Environment (Shape)
  • 8. How Is the Movement Executed? Movement Quality Enables Shading of Motion (Effort)
  • III. Translating Movement to Machines
  • 9. Deconstructing Movement: Case Studies in Expression (Answering "Why?")
  • 10. Notating Movement: Advanced Analysis through Symbolic Representation
  • Conclusion: Understanding Movement
  • Outro: Returning to Embodied Perspectives
  • Appendix A: Symbols in the BESST System
  • Appendix B: Movement Scales
  • Appendix C: Effort Configurations
  • Appendix D: Rationale for the Time Component
  • Appendix E: Pedagogy and Group Work
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index.