Re: motion tracking

Richard Povall (Richard.Povall@oberlin.edu)
Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:33:17 -0400

>all of the "motion tracking" technology works by measuring the change
>in position of the body in question. the system is normalized. the
>system is in flux. what is the change in measurement? that
>measurement is then assigned a value. it is then translated to an
>aesthetic idiom. the body is question will somehow influence and be
>influenced by the feedback. primarily, the data that is generated is
>just about where the body is spacially. nothing whatsoever about the
>content or state of the body; although some might say that the change
>in position of the body could reveal something of its contents.
>

Although, of course, there is a considerable body of work, particularly
from the 70s, in reading the state of the body, particularly through
electromagnetic responses and brainwaves. See the work of David Rosenboom
and Richard Tietelbaum in particular. Nobody that I know of has combined
this work with movement - although there are rather a lot of wires
involved...

R

R i c h a r d P o v a l l
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