Re: Artificial Avatars

From: Edward Shanken (edward.shanken@duke.edu)
Date: 01/22/02


If you're not familiar with it already, you might also check the work of
Myron Kreuger, a pioneer of VR, who created computer controlled interactive
environments beginning in the early 1970s, and the A-Life work of
multimedia artists Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.  Neither is
applied to dance, but could be...

Eddie

Dr. Edward A. Shanken, Executive Director
ISIS - Information Science + Information Studies
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Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0400

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:::::::::22/01/02::::0:28 +0000::::Richard Widgery:::::::::
>Has anyone used AI technology in the creation of dance performances?

Hello,
I have done some experiments in this field, with a real dancer and an
artificial creature that learned the dancer's movements, using a
camera. With the bias that the creature was not humanoid, but looked
and behaved more like a cloud.
http://www.gratin.org/as/txts/sparks.html
Also, I have done some pieces, not designed for performance, but as
autonomous pieces. Humanoid (or at least, having a "real" body):
http://www.gratin.org/as/avecdetermination/

I think that autonomous artificial entities are a very rich and
underexplored aspect of dance, and I would really much like to find
someone, on the dance side, ready to work on a real project around
this with me.

Thank you,

           Antoine



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