ChoreoScriptApolloFrBuhidS14

This piece belong to a series of artworks called «ChoreoScripts», that combine human bodies in movement representations with writing system aesthetic-based animations. The name comes from a neologism formed by the combination of two words, «choreo» - which refers to the domain of dance - and «script» that alluding to the Indo-European root «skribh» means «to cut» or «to record» gave rise to different words in various languages; «scribere» in Latin or «to write» in English, which has multiple meanings. Firstly, it refers to manual writing - as opposed to writing printed by typographic characters - it also signifies to a script (understood as the text of a film, play, or television program) in computer language, it is agreed as a set of commands or instructions executed in a program to perform a specific task. Although both disciplines (dance and writing) share a common field - that can be found in choreographic notation systems - this research proposal (beyond the aim to figure out body movement complexity) pursues to dialogue both environments and explore them as an aesthetic experimentation space. This practice has been carried out through «appropriationism» where the material used (recordings of choreographies and calligraphies) has been stored, processed, and triggered with the idea of generating various creation outlines and dissertations. This «choreographic appropriations» encompasses different creative processes, ranging from the use of movement sequences - published on the internet by different performing artists, to the use of other human figure visual representation placed in digital scopes as in the e-commerce, to become lately paintings made with traditional techniques and physical surfaces to be modified in a next step, by artificial intelligences that recreate the appearance of movement taken from the still images. The «calligraphic appropriations» range from the use of audiovisual footage, which artists share on social media, to the use of obsolete or endangered writing systems findings, and other written documents such as copies of digitized manuscripts as well. At this point, I have developed works composed of motifs that reference writing systems and integrate different creative processes from still images, to animations and 3D virtual sceneries. The combination of these elements has been developed in different pieces, using various techniques and formats, as a result of feedback between the previous items to create synesthetic experiences through real-time audio and video manipulation devices and programs. In this case, still images was taken from a video-animation, based in a choreography of Apollo Anastasiades blended with —«Tagbanwa» and «Hanunoo» writing systems animations based.