This is a collaboration developed by elevenplay\u00d7Rhizomatiks who has been the pursuing possibilities of relationship and interaction between the body and technology by interacting with a variety of hardware and devices such as robot arms and motor-controlled floating balls. In this new work, objects are arranged three-dimensionally in real space through a tracking technology and drone control system, and the work, in which dancers give performances, has been presented so as to find the possibility of a new bodily expression.<\/p>\n
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\nWith the development of video and image analysis technologies, trials to deal with the body as data and to expand the body have been conducted using such methods as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. One problem was, for instance, that a dancer had to wear a head mounted display or while looking at images on a projector. Since an intuitive approach is still difficult, a new experimental work employing advanced control and analysis technologies is required. As there is a limit to the output of images, it is necessary to use physical devices and objects so as to expand bodily expression presented in real space.<\/p>\n
\nA system in which dancers can physically and more intuitively perceive the relationship between the body and data through computer-controlled drones has been developed. There are two kinds of drone movements: a motion produced by tracking a dancer’s movements and an artificial motion operated on the software. At first, dancers had to be trained to interact with the drones because they could not predict how they would move, but eventually they were able to dance with the drones as closely as 10cm away from them.<\/p>\n