Simon Biggs

Memory maps in interactive dance environments

Abstract This essay explores current research by the authors into dance in interactive mediated spaces. This text seeks to articulate the thematics underlying the creative thinking in the work and the technical and methodological aspects of how it is being developed and realiszed. This research develops out of previous collaborations between Sue Hawksley and Simon Biggs involving dance performance and interactive visual art, as well as other collaborations between Biggs and, variously, Sarah Rubidge, Stuart Jones and Stephen Petronio.1 The work discussed here is part of a longer term project developing a range of specific interactive real-time authoring systems for use in performance and interactive installation works.

Making Material Culture

ABSTRACT The authors present their collaborative investigation into the creative applications of liquid crystal elastomers. They explore the process of making these new materials as well as the question of how artists and scientists can work together to develop new materials and to use them in artistic or architectural applications.

The `H' in HCI: Enhancing Perception of Interaction through the Performative

Motion sensing technologies are well developed at the bio-mechanical (motion capture) and geo-locative (GPS) scales. However, there are many degrees of scale between these extremes and there have been few attempts to seek the integration of systems that were designed for distinct contexts and tasks. The proposition that motivated the Scale project team was that through such systems integration it would be possible to create an enhanced perception of interaction between human participants who might be co-located or remotely engaged, separated in either (or both) time or space. A further aim was to examine how the use of these technologies might inform current s discourse on the performative.