translational gallery.
The performers’ data is re-imagined into new artistic representations including visualizations, animations, and music. If you are interested in contributing an artistic work to the gallery please contact us.
translation of three improvisers
by Michael Junokas
This work is a human-machine music collaboration in which a machine learns movement features from the improvisation of three dancers, maps those features to sonic parameters, and synthesizes audio based on the direction of a human agent.
antonio's traces
by Omid Alemi
In this visualization, Antonio’s pathways from the Improv scene are traced, which helps the viewer to observe his movement structures in an aesthetic way.
antonio's traces (animated)
by Omid Alemi
This piece animates parts of Antonio's movement in the Improv scene overlayed on the visualization of the traces of his movements. This aesthetic visualization aims at helping the viewer to observe his movements in the context of his long-term movement structures.
Three Dancers - Entangled
by Omid Alemi
This piece visualizes the traces of the movements of the three dancers in the Improv scene.
Improv Annotations
by Evelyn Kuang
Animated annotations representing qualitative aspects of the dancers’ phrasing in the improv scene.
Triangulation
by Yaying Zhang
The videos are created with MAVi (Movement Aesthetic Visualization Tool). This visualization is an experiment to connect the stage element with the dancer's movement directly using multiple media technology.