An exploration of collecting gestural patterns used in a conversation.
Idea: After interviewing with a number of students from Art Center College of Design, I learned that some of the gestures of each individuals are similar to thumbprints in the sense that they are unique.
Goal: Create a collection of gestural thumbprints of different individuals.
Strategy: The challenge was to intrigue the interviewee to use interesting gestures by allowing him/ her to talk about space and time. I started the interview by asking interviewees to describe about their favorite chapter from Alan Lightman’s novel, Einstein’s Dreams.
Methodology: I connected LED lights on the fingertips of a pair of dark gloves and made the interviewee wear them during a long conversation in a dark room. I documented the gestural patterns created by the led lights through a HD video camera and took pictures using long exposure through a regular DSLR camera.
• Interviewer and interviewee of this Video:
Interviewer: Austin Lee Designer/ Spatial Communication Researcher austinslee.com/
Interviewee: YUSEUNG KIM Designer/Researcher/Instructor yuseungkim.com/
Concept: A short exploration of common gestures used in a conversation.
Goal: Finding gestural habits during a conversation was the goal of this research. The following are the three approaches that I chose for this research.
Investigation:
1. The relationship between gestures and conversation with media(lab top).
2. The relationship between gestures and conversation while holding a huge balloon ball.
3. Gestures used during a candid interview about life.
After interviewing with a number of students from the Graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design, I learned that some of the gestures of each individuals are similar to thumbprints in the sense that they are unique.
In this video, the interviewee is Yuseung Kim, a thesis year student from MDP at ACCD.
Interviewer: Austin Lee Designer/ Spatial Communication Researcher austinslee.com/
Interviewee: YUSEUNG KIM Designer/Researcher/Instructor yuseungkim.com/
A collection of Michael Jackson’s gestures used during his explanation about his childhood. The footage was collected from a documentary, “Living with Michael Jackson”.
“Living with Michael Jackson” is a Granada Television documentary, in which British journalist Martin Bashir interviewed Michael Jackson over a span of eight months en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_with_Michael_Jackson
In the modern society, people have been obsessed with the idea of defining the relationships between the virtual space and the physical space. Many post structuralist architects, such as Peter Eisenman explored this field. In Elizabeth A. Grosz’s essays on Eisenman’s work, the author openly acknowledges the relation between virtual or cyberspace and the real space as a relation of mind to body1. Now we are living in a world where technology and computation are integrated with the culture so deeply and pervasively that the boundaries between the two worlds (virtual/ physical) are becoming more vague than ever before. This being the case,…
how do we define space in a world like this?
what are meanings of mind and body in a world like this?
what do gestures mean in space?
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1. Elizbeth A. Grosz, Peter Eisenman, Architecture From The Outside (MIT Press, 2001)
