Interacting with an intelligent dancing figure: artistic experiments at the crossroads between art and cognitive science

Discusses the project 'Intelligent' Interactivity (Connectionism, Evolutionary Science and Artificial Life) in Digital Arts in Relation with the Physiology of the Perception of Action and Movement, an artistic and scientific project based on virtual interactive figures. The authors relate...

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Published in:Leonardo (Oxford) 2005-01, Vol.38 (1), p.38-53
Main Authors: Bret, Michel, Tramus, Marie-Hélène, Berthoz, Alain
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Discusses the project 'Intelligent' Interactivity (Connectionism, Evolutionary Science and Artificial Life) in Digital Arts in Relation with the Physiology of the Perception of Action and Movement, an artistic and scientific project based on virtual interactive figures. The authors relate notions of interactivity to ideas about artificial life, detail installations created during the project such as The Virtual Tightrope Walker (2004; illus.), and comment on the role of the spectator in the installation Dance with Me. They explain how the interactive models were based on human neural networks, and consider the idea of perception as a simulated action.
ISSN:0024-094X