INTIMAL: Walking to Find Place, Breathing to Feel Presence

Ximena Alarcon Diaz, Victor Evaristo Gonzalez Sanchez, and Cagri Erdem

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

INTIMAL is a physical virtual embodied system for relational listening that integrates body movement, oral archives, and voice expression through telematic improvisatory performance in migratory contexts. It has been informed by nine Colombian migrant women who express their migratory journeys through free body movement, voice and spoken word improvisation. These improvisations have been recorded using Motion Capture, in order to develop interfaces for co-located and telematic interactions for the sharing of narratives of migration. In this paper, using data from the Motion Capture experiments, we are exploring two specific movements from improvisers: displacements on space (walking, rotating), and breathing data. Here we envision how co-relations between walking and breathing, might be further studied to implement interfaces that help the making of connections between place, and the feeling of presence for people in-between distant locations.

Citation:

Ximena Alarcon Diaz, Victor Evaristo Gonzalez Sanchez, and Cagri Erdem. 2019. INTIMAL: Walking to Find Place, Breathing to Feel Presence. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3672944

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{AlarconDiaz2019,
 abstract = {INTIMAL is a physical virtual embodied system for relational listening that integrates body movement, oral archives, and voice expression through telematic improvisatory performance in migratory contexts. It has been informed by nine Colombian migrant women who express their migratory journeys through free body movement, voice and spoken word improvisation. These improvisations have been recorded using Motion Capture, in order to develop interfaces for co-located and telematic interactions for the sharing of narratives of migration. In this paper, using data from the Motion Capture experiments, we are exploring two specific movements from improvisers: displacements on space (walking, rotating), and breathing data. Here we envision how co-relations between walking and breathing, might be further studied to implement interfaces that help the making of connections between place, and the feeling of presence for people in-between distant locations.},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {Ximena Alarcon Diaz and Victor Evaristo Gonzalez Sanchez and Cagri Erdem},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3672944},
 editor = {Marcelo Queiroz and Anna Xambó Sedó},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {246--249},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {{INTIMAL}: Walking to Find Place, Breathing to Feel Presence},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_paper047.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}