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ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS TALK:

Title: Sensing the Body to Expand Possibilities in Art and Performance

Date: January 24th, 2025 @ 1700 UTC

Link: https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2025-01-sensing-the-body-to-expand-possibilities-in-art-and-performance/

Moderated by: Elizabeth Jochum, Alan Macy, & Bonnie Mitchell

Session Description:
As early as the 1960s, artists have used sensors to detect changes in the body as a means of capturing physiological data to alter the outcome of visual and performing art forms. Today, artists and innovative technologists push creative boundaries utilizing computational tools to augment the body itself in artistically expressive ways. Through the exploration of how systems and sensors transform aesthetic experiences, artists address issues such as multimodal human-computer interaction, sensory perception, identity politics, embodied experience, and interpersonal relationships to the body itself. Artists have used body sensing to create augmented dance and music performances, wearable computing, motion capture, interactive installation artworks, robotic art, interactive screen-based works, virtual environments, and even 2D artworks. The integration of machine-learning approaches has widened the scope of possibilities in this experiential art form. This session includes artists and technologists discussing their research and creative endeavors that utilize body sensing. In the discussion, we will take a critical approach and consider the ethical issues related to data capture and utilizing the body’s inner biometrics in the name of art.

Presenters include:
Kate Sicchio
Camille Baker
Marco Donnarumma
Yiou Wang
Daiane Lopes da Silva
Thomas f. deFrantz
Mark-David Hosale
Grisha Coleman
Ellen Pearlman
Nina Sobell

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