BODY FRAGMENTED - temporal expressions

Linnea Bågander

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In response to digital technology, new methods, thinking and aesthetics have emerged that challenge the way we design. In particular, the extraction of movement introduced by motion-capture technology propose a design process wherein the motion rather than the form is used as a material in a design process. In such a process the motion is extracted form a defined set of points that creates a digital representation. In this exposition, the strategies utilized when capturing a motion is translated into the process of garment making with the purpose to challenge bodily aesthetics through dress.  Practically, this exposition builds on two independent studies with the shared aim to define parameters for transformations of the moving body’s expression applied to a garment making process. Yet, the transformation is approached from two perspectives; the first study is non-material and borrows theory and references from the field of dance and motion capturing technology. It maps the body as a point-based system based on the body as a moving form and pin-points body functions that affect these points. This part serves as a foundation for the second study that adds material aspects, in particular, it maps material parameters that relate to how the material is arranged in relation to these points. In conclusion, strategies of extraction of movement as attachments and the scale of fragmentation of materials are considered the main contribution to the garment making process. As it proposes a new usage of movement, the work has implications for fashion design, costume design but also other body movement-based mediums as it is about the expression of body movement and not just the body as a form.

I och med utveckling inom digital teknik har nya metoder, tänkande och estetik framkommit som utmanar vårt sätt att designa. I synnerhet föreslår extraktionen av rörelse introducerad med motion-capturing teknologi en designprocess där rörelsen snarare än formen används som ett material i en kreativ process. I en sådan process extraheras rörelsen från en definierad uppsättning punkter som skapar en digital representation. I denna studie används strategierna för att fånga en rörelse till processen för att designa kläder med syftet att utmana kroppslig estetik genom kläder. Denna text på två oberoende studier med det gemensamma målet att definiera parametrar för transformationer av kroppens uttryck i rörelse. Texten undersöker transformationen ur två perspektiv; den första studien är icke-materiell och lånar teori och referenser från dans och motion capture-teknik, den föreslår en förståelse för kroppen som ett punktbaserat system som en rörlig form och fungerar som en teoretisk grund. Den andra studien fokuserar på materiella aspekter, i synnerhet kartlägger den materialparametrar som hänför sig till hur materialet är arrangerat i relation till de punkter som är föreslagna av den första studien. Sammanfattningsvis anses strategier för extraktion av rörelse som placering och skalan av fragmentering av material vara det viktigaste bidraget till kläddesign processen, eftersom dessa parametrar föreslår en ny rörelseanvändning. Fynden bidrar till arbetsprocess inom modedesign, kostymdesign men också andra kroppsrörelsebaserade medier eftersom det handlar om uttryck för kroppsrörelse och inte bara kroppen som en form.

type	research exposition
keywords	Motion capturing, motion design, fashion design, body extended, performing body
date	17/10/2019
published	15/10/2020
last modified	15/10/2020
status	published
copyright	Linnea Bågander
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/710802/710803
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/vis.710802
published in	VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	4. VIS Issue 4

name	POINTS
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name	1.1 Arrangement – same material
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name	Arrangement-relation of points
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name	Connections
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name	FULLBODYCOLLECT
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name	TWIST
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name	CIRCLE
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name	LOCOMOTION
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name	FOLD
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name	Arrangement - Fitted form
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name	Abstraction
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name	Different functions
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name	Same movement
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name	SameLinea
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name	Informing movement
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name	Informing movement
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name	Material Movement
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name	Materail Movement
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name	Extension
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name	Extension
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name	POINTS
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name	CONCLUSION FRAGMENTED
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