Capturing a sense of place
Posted: September 2nd, 2010 under archaeology, body, comportment, digital media, embodied representation, motion capture, site.
Tags: Animazoo, archaeology, comportment, documentation, embodiment, motion capture, photography, Silchester, site
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Silchester Site Visit
Audio Extract of Archaeological Team working on Site
Posted: September 2nd, 2010 under archaeology, audio, digital media, field recording, site.
Tags: archaeology, audio, digital meda, documentation, field recording, place, relationscape, site
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The University of Sussex is delighted to host an interdisciplinary workshop on motion capture, as part of the methodologies workshop series organised by UK higher education bodies AHESSC (Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre) and JISC, in collaboration with the Motion in Place Platform Project. These events share experience and interests across specific digital development sectors that are nurturing research in the arts and humanities.
This workshop will consist of brief plenary presentations on projects and their technical environments interspersed with informal networking sessions and ample time for questions and discussion. Motion capture resources and related software products will be available for demonstrations and project-oriented discussions. A reception organised in partnership with Lighthouse on the evening of Friday 25 June will provide fur ther networking opportunities with regional cultural representatives.
Workshop presenters
DK Arvind. Research Consortium in Speckled Computing, School of Informatics University of Edinburgh.
Helen Bailey. Division of Performing Arts and English, University of Bedfordshire.
Stuart Dunn. AHeSSC, King’s College London.
Donald Glowinski. InFoMus Lab, Faculty of Engineer ing, University of Genoa.
David Green. Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
Carlos Guedes. Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
Iwona Hrynczenko. Department of Game Development, Gotland University.
Ali Kord. Animazoo, Brighton.
Sally Jane Norman. Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex.
Matt Oughton, Vicon, Oxford.
David Pirrò. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz.
Gretchen Schiller. School of Ar ts, Brunel University.
Martin White. School of Informatics, University of Sussex.
Kirk Woolford. School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.
How to attend
This workshop is free of charge and can accommodate approximately 50 participants in total. We request prompt notification from persons wishing to attend for the 2 full days (beginning at 9:30am Friday 25 June and ending at 4pm on Saturday 26 June 2010). Given high demand and limited capacity, only persons fully committed to attend should register .
Start date: 25 Jun 2010 09:30
End date: 26 Jun 2010 16:00
Venue: Lighthouse
City: Brighton
Posted: June 18th, 2010 under digital media, event, interdisciplinary, motion capture.
Tags: digital media, event, motion capture
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We are pleased to announce the start of a new project to develop a Motion in Place Platform enabling the study of relationships between human movement and site.
Over the course of the next year, the team will develop two tracking systems to capture different forms of motion data: high resolution full-body data obtained from 2 people in a fixed area over limited periods of time (e.g., the sequence of movements needed to bring water from a well to a hearth or the movements needed to cross a crowded intersection); and positional data gathered from many people moving over large areas and over extended time scales (e.g., the movements of a team of archaeologists over an entire 6 week dig, or the movement of visitors around a city park). Researchers will work together with Brighton-based motion capture company, “Animazoo” to adapt their studio-based motion capture systems for use in the field while simultaneously developing capture software for the Apple iPhone to provide a readily available system for capturing data from large groups.
Up to now, the main research tools available for this type of work have been cameras and GPS loggers. Some researchers have gone a step further and build 3-D models or create virtual fly-throughs allowing people to look at buildings and sites from different viewpoints, but many concede that, the truly human aspect, the behaviour and experience of place, is lost. In order to get a truly embodied understanding of what they intend to build, to study, to appreciate the scale and orientation of a space, or the relationships of the people within it, researchers of all disciplines must walk the site.
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under archaeology, body, body/world, dance, embodied representation, embodiment, excluded middle, field recording, game engines, motion, motion capture, object/event, photography, site.
Tags: about, announcement, motion capture, project overview, Uni of Sussex
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