Yoichiro Kawaguchi: Gemon Dance

Artist(s):

• Yoichiro Kawaguchi

Collaborators:

• Masayuki Takagi
• Tomohiro Akagawa
• Shuhei Tsuruoka
• Alissa Cardone -
  • Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Title:

Gemon Dance

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 2006: Electronically Mediated Performances

Medium:

Interactive performance, controlled by simultaneous real-time capture of human movement and 3D CG object

Category:

• Performance

Artist Statement:

This work expresses the motion of a dancer captured in real time and a 3D CG object’s reactions to the motion. The audience, jumping or dancing in front of a screen, becomes a part of the image and its organic and geometric shapes. The work reflects dance

Technical Information:

The system processes a dancer’s actions captured by a camera in real time as mathematical parameters and projects them on the screen as changing three-dimensional CG images. The behavior of the CG images and the arrangement of the dance change interactive