A gesture, such as waving goodbye or shrugging your shoulders, is a dynamic movement used to express an idea or meaning. As small as these gestures are, they are undeniably a means of physical engagement and communication. This body of work attempts to examine today’s digital gestures, such as “texting thumbs” and “swiping.”
By employing motion capture, I am attempting to explain these gestures and movements by mapping out their inherent properties in space time. The movements can then be re-actualized across multiple bodies and multiple media without losing the analytics of the motion. The pieces here ask the viewer to develop a more self-aware, examined relationship with technology and their bodies. I believe through embodied interactions and bodily awareness, we can better control our future with technology.
The motion capture was done in collaboration with Bimal Balakrishnan and Benjamin Schrimpf at the University of Missouri Immersive Visualization Laboratory. The Silicon Nanowire imagery and video editing was done in collaboration with physicist, Dr. Jesse Kremenak.
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