InFracta: the Body as an Augmented Instrument in a Collaborative, Multi-Modal Piece

Abstract

This paper discusses the creative process of the piece “InFracta: Dialogue Processes in a Multi-modal Environment”. The discussion concerns the dialogues between the dance, music, image, and technology knowledge domains, which were all present in the construction of the piece’s poetics. The interaction between these domains fostered resignifying the dancers’ gestures, so that their bodies interacted with a sound environment as if they were augmented instruments. This discussion adds to previous work on technology-mediated multi-modal art, in special concerning the contribution and the emergence of meaning related to each of the knowledge domains involved in the piece.