Disembodied performance

ion of Representation in Live Theater PPPPETERETERETERETER TTTTORPEYORPEYORPEYORPEY Opera of the Future, MIT Media Lab Disembodied Performance presents a new way to think about expressive presence. At its core, it allows abstraction of a person’s emotive gesture away from the human body, allowing for the transmission of a performance across distances and into completely new forms of representation. Adapting ideas from affective psychology, cognitive science, and the theatrical tradition, I propose a framework for thinking about the translation of stage presence. In order to distill the essence of a character, we recover performance parameters in real-time from gesture and physiological sensors, as well as voice and vision systems. This system allows an offstage actor to express emotion and interact with others onstage. The Disembodied Performance approach takes a new direction in augmented performance by employing a esentational abstraction of a human presence that fully translates a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Peter Alexander Torpey, Elena Naomi Jessop
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Disembodied Performance, Disembodied Performance Approach, Human Computer Interaction, Lab Disembodied Performance