Making Meaning with Machines
Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens
$186.53
- Paperback
418 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2023
Summary
A rigorous primer in movement studies for designers, engineers, and scientists that draws on the fields of dance and robotics.
How should a gestural interface react to a “flick” versus a “dab”? Versus a “punch”? Should robots reach out to a human counterpart with a direct, telescoping action or through a circuitous arc in space? Just as different movements express the different internal states of human movers, so too can the engineered systems behind robots. In Making Meaning with Mac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546126 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262546124 |
| Author: | Amy LaViers, Catherine Maguire |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 418 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
Amy LaViers
Amy LaViers works at the intersection of robotics and dance. Her work has been presented in arts, engineering, and science venues, including Nature, Merce Cunningham’s studios, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the Performance Arcade, Berkeley, Princeton, and Georgia Tech. She runs the Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit for art-making, commercialization, education, outreach, and research.
Catherine (Cat) Maguire is a movement educator and dance artist. She has been teaching in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for over 40 years and works as a faculty member of WholeMovement, a coterie of movement analysts working together to promote movement studies globally. She also teaches ongoing movement classes designed to foster self-expression and body connectivity at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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