Mária Júdová & Andrej Boleslavský (CZ/SK): Physicality in Virtual Spaces
Keywords: VR 3D, volumetric capturing 3D vvvv, dance, choreography
What makes VR different from other media, is that it is as much a physical experience as it is visual. It allows to capture physicality and to reimagine our perception of body, space and time like no other media. Re-imagination of the physicality will be at the core of the workshop. During the workshop, we will go through our previous artworks to demonstrate how the concepts of body and perception relate to our practice, research, and interest. We will use cinematic VR experience DUST as a basis to explain how we use virtual reality to alter a user's body perception. After a short conceptually/theoretically driven introduction, the series of hands-on experiments will follow. Participants will use the digital technologies in order to reimagine their physicality and to discover the creative possibilities of VR based techniques in the context of movement, dance, and choreography. Using the VR headset, creative coding node-based toolkit VVVV and a volumetric recording using depth camera we will create experiences in which one is able to observe his or her own body movements from a perspective of the third person in real-time or in the recording. We will examine the impact of a different time, location and scale perspective on a movement self-perception.
Duration: 4 hours
Target group: dancers, choreographers, artists, general audience
http://camouflage.org.uk Festival Art & Tech Days 2018 has been supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council, Visit Košice and Ministry of Construction of the Slovak Republic. The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
