Trajective Locomotion

This chapter examines the perceptual and aesthetic properties of the “follow shot,” a tracking shot that follows a human subject on foot from behind. Analyzing two films that conspicuously explore the follow shot as their core stylistic principle, Alan Clarke’s Elephant (1989) and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003), this chapter shows how the formal properties of the follow shot—the camera’s forward movement, its denial of the subject’s face, and its sense of being tethered to its subject—are crucial to each film’s meditation on violence and human agency. By visually emphasizing the forward movement of its subjects while denying access to their interiorities (via the face), the follow shot attunes its viewers to its subject’s agency as a sense of pure “towardness” devoid of psychological insight, an effect the chapter calls “trajectivity.” Such a mode of representing subjectivity, the chapter argues, opposes cinematic traditions that rely on a seamless relation between psychological motivation, human expression, and human action. In doing so, the chapter offers a revised film theoretical account of the relation between camera movement, expression, and ethics.

Gender, action and expression in Pipilotti rist’s ever is over all video art

In this study, two channelled and coloured video installation called Ever is Over All dated 1997 by Pipilotti Rist’s being one of the artists who shaped video installations is analysed. In this installation produced by Pipilotti Rist as a woman artist, a woman in an entranced mood is shown smashing the glasses of some of the cars parked on the roadside. There is the vast space of the flower field on the one side and then there is a cheerful woman as the main character crashing the glasses of the parked cars on the roadside with a long stemmed flower just like from the field. The female body is especially important in audio and video installations of Rist. This installation by the artist has been assessed in terms of gender, action (movement), expression, freedom and solidarity. The flower used by the woman to smash the car glasses is considered over themes such as nature, life and woman and the fact that a passing by female police officer does not intervene in the situation and goes on her way just by greeting our heroine and smiling is assessed using concepts such as gender, action/movement, expression and freedom. In this research, the effects created by the medium of expression in art are touched upon in the video installation titled Ever is Over All and it has been concluded that the subjects and objects included in the video inspire the solidarity of woman, community and nature. Keywords: video art, Pipilotti Rist, Gender-Action-Expression

The importance of Emil Jaques-Dalcroze’s solfeggio to the development of musicality and creative skills in the 1st-3rd-graders of an elementary music school in the light of the authors’ research

The authors of the article present findings of their own pilot study regarding the use of Emil Jaques-Dalcroze’s solfeggio in the development of musicality and creative skills in the 1st-3rd-graders of an elementary music school. The experiment was carried out in the elementary music school in Sucha Beskidzka, based on an original school curriculum encompassing the subjects of “eurhythmics” and “aural training” taught integrally. The aim of the study was to determine efficiency of aural training taught in line with Dalcroze’s method. The research procedure involved the authors’ original test of musical skills, checking the level of tonal sense development, intonation, sense of timing, as well as musical memory, aural-motor coordination, movement expression and creative skills. It aimed to answer the question regarding the extent to which Dalcroze’s exercises, integrating aural, vocal and motor activities, can develop a pupil’s acuity of noticing musical phenomena and improve their musical competences.

Light Dance

The author discusses the origin and meaning of his Light Dance artwork. The simple approach—placing a source of light on the body and thereby manipulating the illumination of the surrounding space through body movements—alters the viewer’s perception of space and time. Architecture appears malleable as the performer affects the size, shape and speed of light forms that reach from the body to the boundaries of the room. Light, in this perceptual environment, is not a mere transmitter of information between the invariant material surroundings and the eye of the viewer; light is a space-defining extension of the performer’s body that transposes movement expression from the individual body to the shared space. An inversion of subjective and objective “spaces” is realized in the experience of Light Dance wherein the prevailing conceptual hierarchy of light and vision is overcome.

Humans Enter the Age of Avatarism

The internet, social networks, emerging virtual/augmented/mixed reality technology platforms and portals are beginning to utilize and display interactive, spatially relative, three-dimensional versions of objects, persons, and environments. The human need to document and archive one's form, behavior, beliefs, experiences, and wishes is an inherent need and desire of our species to preserve and tell their unique life stories. An ability to track and/or capture human movement, expression, environment, and experience with technology designed to acquire hand gestures, body and facial tracking inputs, as well as speech will play an important role in the life documentation process. The eventual goal will be for humankind to interact with, and be remembered as, autonomous virtual agents beyond the scope of physical life, providing “virtual immortality” to any and all that adopt the capability as it evolves in our culture, and with the machines and applications that we utilize. This chapter explores the age of avatarism.

Criança, Meio Ambiente e Cidadania

Considerando, por um lado, a necessidade urgente de que os movimentos sociais formulem propostas de políticas públicas para a educação infantil e pressionem os governos a executarem estas políticas; e, por outro lado, considerando a necessidade de que seja assegurada a qualidade dos serviços às crianças que já freqüentam creches e préescolas, este artigo tem como objetivo: 1. explicitar uma concepção de educação integral em que uma das questões centrais é a construção de uma convivência com a Natureza que faça com que o ser humano se sinta parte dela e não o seu senhor. 2. apresentar algumas reflexões a partir do que consideramos, hoje, uma necessidade urgente: a emergência de práticas educativas que ofereçam aconchego e proteção e ampliem as possibilidades de movimentação, expressão e integração com a natureza; práticas educativas que preservem a singularidade, admirem a multiplicidade humana, assegurem o aprendizado da cooperação e, assim, contribuam para o pleno exercício da cidadania. Abstract Given, on the one hand, the urgent need that social movenients formula te proposals for public policy on child education and pressure governmenís to iniplement these policies and, on the other hand, the need to ensure quality in services to children frecpienting daycare centers and pre-schools, this article aims to:l. outline a conception of integral education, one of whose central concerns is to construct a kind of coexistence with Nature in which people feel more part of, rather than lord over, Nature; 2. to offer some reflections on what we consider today to be the urgent need for educational practices that offer comfort and protection, as well as broader opportunities for movement, expression and integration with Nature; educational practices which preserve singularity, admire maus multiplicity, ensure the learning of cooperation and, thus, contribute to thefull exercise of citizenship. Résumé Cet article tient compte, d 'un côté, de l 'urgence de laformulation par les mouvements sociaux de propositions de politiques publiques concernant l 'éducation des enfants et de lapression que ces mouvements doivent exercer sur les gouvernements en vue de là mise en oeuvre de ces politiques et, d 'un autre côté, du besoin d 'assurer là qualité des prestations aux enfants qui sont déjà inscrits aux creches et à d'autres institutions d 'enseignement pré-scolaire. Ainsi, cet article vise à: 1. prèsenter une conception d'éducation intégrale dont l'un des aspects essentiels est là construction d 'une relation à là Nature quifasse de sorte que l 'être humain se sente une part ie de celle-ci, et non pas son maítre; 2. prèsenter quelques réflexions basées sur ce que nous semble être un besoin actuellement pressant: là mise en place de pratiques éducatives capables d'offrir aux enfants aceneiI et protection et d'augmenter leurs possibilites de mouvement, expression el integration à là nature; des pratiques éducatives quipréscrvent Ia singularité, admirent là multiplicitè humaine et assurent Vapprentissage de là cooperation, contribuant ainsi à 1'exercice plein de là citoyenneté. Resumen Considerando, por una parte, là necesidad urgente de que los movimientos Sociales formulai propuestas de políticas públicas para là educación de los ninos ypresionen a los gobiernos a implementarlas, y, por outra parte, considerando Ia necesidad de asegurar là calidad de los servidos que se prestan a los ninos que ya están en guarderías y parvularios, este artículo tiene el doble objetivo de: 1. presentar una Concepcion de educación integral, en que una de Ias Cuestiones centrales es Ia construcción de un convívio con là Naturaleza capaz de hacer que el ser humano se sienta parte de ella, y no su senor; 2. presentar algunas rejlexiones en base a Io que hoy consideramos como una necesidad apremiante: el surgimiento de prácticas educativas que, además de brindarles a los ninas acojida yprotección, amplien sus posibilidades de movimiento, expresión e integración a là naturaleza; prácticas educativas que preserven Ia singularidad, admiren là multiplicidad humana y aseguren el aprendizaje de là Cooperación, contribuyendo al pleno ejercicio de là ciudadanía.

Design and Implementation of Motion Expression Activity Program Applying LMA to Children with Intellectual Disabilities Using ICT

The purpose of this study is to design and implement a movement expression activity program through ICT using Laban's LMA in recognizing movements of children with intellectual disabilities. Kinect and Laban's movements were used to construct a motion expression activity program. In this research method, screen image screen and theme music were used as contents of musical work <Les Miserable>. The motions of randomly set to 40 kinds, and when the movement of the screen coincided with each other, the score was displayed with the ringing tone. The experimental design was conducted for 13 children with disabilities for 4 days (12. 21 ~ 12. 25. 2016). In addition the willingness to match the motion of the screen in kinetic expression activities using Kinect, repetitive exercises gradually improved the completeness of the movements and the final score of the game. This study, it has been observed that curiosity, interest, and immersion in movement expression activity are designed and implemented by using Kinect for the movement expression activity program with a new education game approach that can eliminate the fear of physical activity it was tried.