Gongbing Shan (Alberta/Canada)

Historically, human movement depiction has been challenged with representing time-based events in one image. Pre-photography, movement was represented by a stop-action visual effect (Diskobolos of Myron). Muybridge photos sparked controversy, as realist painters found that their works were not so true-to-life, and his use of multi-camera stop-action photo initiated a scientific approach to movement representations. If photography tested the limits of visual culture in the past, video and more recently, 3D motion capture do so now. Cognition in these dynamic worlds relies on the viewers to subliminally compress info from multiple images into a summative experience. As 3D motion capture overcomes memory limits, time-based movement trajectories can be obtained and used as Pattern-Finding in various movements from sports to art performances. A collection of such trajectories could mine movement as a tool of communication as they become a signature that conveys the essence of human movement


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g [dot] shan [at] uleth [dot] ca


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