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the YMYI artefact The
YMYI artefact proposes a body dialogue between a user and a digital
system, based on a live performance with gestures and movements within
an interactive space. Thus, YMYI aims at exploring a space where a user
develops an ongoing creative process duly synchronised with his own
motion actions.
By entering a so-called “stage”, where the YMYI interactive installation takes place, the user meets, at a first glance, a whole regiment of particles flying in diverse directions and speed throughout the digital system. Within the experiencing sphere of the interaction itself, the user sees his own anatomic silhouette embodied in the canvas, in the shape of lines and curves. Meanwhile, the user realises that his gestures and movements, actually synchronised with his own physical displacement within the interactive “stage”, migrate in real time to the canvas. The performance acquires new shapes and contours. The space opens itself to tridimensionality. By moving leftwards or rightwards, upwards or downwards, the displayed interactive “me” goes hand in hand with the user´s own theatrical actions. The system becomes a stage which lets the emotion and the creativity come in. The living experience is unique and subjective. The dramatic emphasis of the performance deepens: gestures embed themselves in sounds created by the body, like breathing, walking, standing up, hiding, as if we one was dealing with a contemporary dance performance. The huge number of particles moving around the user fill in the scene background. They seem to have a life of their own, featuring living, dynamic and electrifying properties. Such particles tend to concentrate themselves in the edges of both the superior and inferior limbs. Feet and hands become a converging magnet able to attract and join them in a collective “bubble”. It is as if they behaved as a physical extension of the user´s body or embodiment. Thus, both particles and user form a single, united element, shining glamorously throughout the interface. In this interactive scope, the user realises that light/soft movements bring on greater interactivity and emotion. Such an experience is “affordable” by the natural convergence of the whole particles throughout the given parts of the user body as a result from his gestures. If we try moving the left hand or the right one, or even the left foot or right one, the particles flow to each one of their edges accordingly. If we try to put our hands or arms in a downwards position, the particles flow upwards until they reach an upper position – the user´s own head. The interaction is experienced in a richer, more creative and more artistic way. Another outstanding feature belonging to the interactive experience is actually the sound. In the YMYI artefact, we experience a synchronising sound reactive to the gestures dynamics of the user himself. The sound emits low in pitch or sharp frequencies, responding in real time to the user´s position, whether he is standing (upwards) or sitting/hiding ( downwards), respectively. Right on the top of the canvas, a sensitive sound to the touching facility of the user has the ability to project a sonorous lightning flash whose energy goes through the inner self. In the artefact YMYI, the sound is a sole element which travels in harmony through the flowing gestures of the user within the interactive space so as to provide guidance and “affordance” to the user himself, in its artistic dimension. If the user stops moving, the sound concentrates in itself an ongoing powerful energy which provides a growing amplitude, whether in low pitch or sharp frequencies, which on their turn, become reactive to and at the same time dependent on the inferior or superior position of the user´s embodiment limbs, respectively. The sound provides a multimodal enrichment to the whole interactive experience and creates by itself together with image and movement an interactive guide to the appropriation, exploration, knowledge and live experience of the artefact. João Martinho Moura, Jorge Sousa, March 2008 |
Vivência
experiencial do artefacto YMYI O
artefacto YMYI enceta um diálogo corporal de um utilizador com
um sistema digital, do qual resulta uma performance baseada em gestos
e movimentos do mesmo num espaço interactivo. A instalação
YMYI visa, então, a exploração de um espaço
onde um utilizador desenvolve todo um processo criativo que se auto-recria
continuamente em sincronização com as suas próprias
acções motoras. |
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