Ways of seeing/working with movement in the arts

Motion Capture Related Projects
www.openendedgroup.com
http://movement.nyu.edu/projects/index.html

Laban Movement Studies:
http://labanforanimators.wordpress.com/

Player Movement Experience in Games:
http://thatgamecompany.com/games/
http://www.metacritic.com/games/wii/scores/

Movement in Architecture
http://cgg-journal.com/2005-3/04/index.htm

Kinetic Art
http://www.strandbeest.com/
http://www.arthurganson.com/

Futurism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(art)

Various Motion Galleries:
http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/
http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Motion/

More readings (pdf) on human and expressive movement in Workspace/Courses/AC760_Berezina_Sp09/movement

Synchronous Objects Symposium

3-5pm at the Wexner Center

http://slate.accad.ohio-state.edu/

http://www.wexarts.org/ex/forsythe/

Thoughts after the symposium:

On William Forsythe's "creating classes of motion" - look at choreographing movement as ways to create conditions for particular movement, rather than directly request it from performer.
(Installations Suspense, Antipode I/II, etc)

On Mark Goulthorpe's "need to know" aesthetics: Parametric approach to choreography (directing movement) means specifying a few conditions and letting improvisation take care of the rest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovGMw18wms&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSvzUXc6VOA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPScI15bUkE

On Alva Noe's "perception as knowing and dance as knowing": natural movement contains developing thought, while expressive movement emphasizes communication - another point of contemplation on realism for animator.

Dance vs Mime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-nek2jV4E&feature=related