Project Descriptions
Dancing Across Media | Religion, Remediated | The Magpie's Nest
“Dancing Across Media” is a webtext article completed in collaboration with Kaustavi Sarkar, a doctoral student in the dance department at Ohio State and a classical Indian dancer. She recorded a short dance sequence using motion-capture technology, then used the movement data to generate four videos with different avatars (two of which were created in collaboration with professional animators). The webtext article presents the four videos, connects them to relevant discussions in digital and culturally contextualized composing, and analyzes the impact of each avatar form on the Odissi movement data. The webtext was coded from a blank template with HTML and CSS in Aptana Studio; all photo and video elements come from Kaustavi’s research and travel media files.
