Avatars, Emanents

https://youtu.be/pPU0j8H1dkg video - read below -

http://www.alansondheim.org/emanent2.rtf - download
(around 2016, theory of emanating or problematic avatars)

I've worked with avatars and avatar constructs for a long time;
this video summarizes the scaffolding and the song summarizes
their positioning in the world. these were built from the ground
up, in other words no AI. The movements came from flesh bodies
in flesh and studio space altered by careful remappings. The
movements were created by dancers following sets of instructions
with feedback from monitors in the motion capture room. The
current 'smearing' of the image emphasizes the trajectories and
spatial occupying produced by the movements. The song emphasizes
the implicitness and implicit presence of avatars. The avatars
began and ended with people, not with sets of instructions. The
people transformed and produced files that I've used everywhere.
In a sense it's related to war games or traffic flow studies.
Here it's married to something, the futures of flesh and bodies.
It bears witness. (originals produced at NJIT and reworked now,
old song reworked and produced by Azure Carter. I'm responsible
for it all.)


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