Panel Statement

Panel: Visualising Gesture and Effect

Keywords: Animation, Dramaturgy, Motion Capture, MxCAP.01, Representation, Scale, Visualization.

This paper theoretically situates research that explores motion capture data visualization using customized software tools such as MxCap.01. The value of software like MxCap.01 lies in its visualization capabilities including the ability to scale the re-presentation of the force, direction and intensity of movement but also do so within a temporal and emotive structuring.

• Gavin Perin is a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. Having completed his Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Canberra, he is currently completing a design based research Masters of Architecture Degree at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also co-director and founding member of the Centre for Digital Design at UTS which is engaged in theoretical and practice based research that explores the evolving frontiers of digital design.?Gavin’s main research interest is the role of representation in architecture and the generative and instrumental affect of the forms of representation on design practice and its artifacts. ?This work is being developed within the CDD, which is engaged in theoretical and practice based research that explores the evolving frontiers of digital design with the aim to develop new and innovative ways digital media can be used to design immersive dynamic information systems that function in physical and virtual environments.
• Chris Bowman is a designer, artist, writer, director and teacher who works with animation, film, and convergent media display systems. He graduated in Film and Animation from Liverpool School of Art + Design (Liverpool John Moore’s University, 1980) and completed his MA in Film and Television at the Royal College of Art (1984). Chris has directed and produced award winning animated and experimental art films and he regularly exhibits his screen media work in Australia. In addition Chris has an international profile as a production designer with over thirty film and television productions to his credit. Since 1992, Chris has taught in the Visual Communication Program at UTS in Sydney and is currently Director of the Master of Animation at UTS. He is a member of the Centre for Contemporary Design Practice and he actively participates in the Centre for Media Arts Innovation and the Creativity and Cognition Studios at UTS. In 2006 Chris co-founded the Centre for Digital Design. Chris has been the recipient of funding from ACID (Australasian CRC for Interaction Design), the Australian Film Commission (Screen Australia), and the Australia Council for the Arts. creativityandcognition.com

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