West Virginia motion capture / sound / image / text work

[Charles Baldwin]

West Virginia motion capture / sound / image / text work
 

http://www.clc.wvu.edu/sondheim/ 
 
Welcome to the initial results of a collaboration between the writer
and
artist Alan Sondheim and two research centers at WVU, the Center for
Literary Computing (CLC)  and the Virtual Environments Lab (VEL).
Sondheim
visited WVU during June and July 2004 to begin initial research on a
project entitled "World Premiere: The Phenomenology of the Virtual."
We
are pleased to present some of the video, audio, and still images
resulting from this work.  Other aspects of the project include an art
installation and public discussions. This is a ongoing exploration:
more
files will be added, included commentary and theoretical writings.
 
Sondheim produced many of these works through creative mis-use and
adaption of the motion capture technologies at the VEL. Using the
technology against the grain, Sondheim disrupted and re-distributed
built-in assumptions about the imaging and integrity of the human body
and
the capture of the "real." The results are beautiful and moving, both
alien and very human, enigmatic and intimate. If these are works about
the
liveness of technological codings and protocols, they equally work
rooted
in a particular place - West Virginia.  Sondheim continually records
his
interactions and travels in and around Morgantown, and the images and
sounds of West Virginia are integrated into this work. The project is
as
much about the very real and local as it is about the virtual, and this
is
its interest and intensity.
 
Sandy Baldwin
Assistant Professor of English/CLC Director
 
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The selection of materials includes finished work, 'miniatures' of
finished work, and raw materials. Most of the still images are 'raw,'
and
resonate with me; they find their way into other pieces. There are
images
of the July/August installation at the Paul Mesaros Gallery of West
Virginia University; there are also images of the motion capture
equipment
at work, as well as landscape/town shots.
 
There are two sample .bvh files which feed into the videos through
Poser 4
and Poser 5 applications.
 
The texts are my current writing, some of which is on motion capture
and
other relevant concerns.
 
I wish to thank Sandy Baldwin, the two interns working with me (from
the
Research Experiences for Undergraduates program), Terri Markle and
Jorge
Fuentes, as well as Frances van Scoy from the Virtual Environments
Laboratory.
 
And thank you for looking at the materials here -
 
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com 
 

 
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