Graduation project
A Still Body Still Moves
Maria Gonçalves Camilo
An investigation into the way digital interfaces regulate body movement and gestures reveals a precisely designed score.
Body movement is increasingly becoming the mediating principle for digital tools. As movement becomes more ingrained into managing digital interfaces, how people move with and without devices becomes more entangled. For gestures to be efficiently captured, and later analyzed, they need to have a specified interpretation, which contradicts the very idea that movements are a sincere expression of someone’s intentions. Maria Camilo inquires into this ‘scorification’ of movement, drawing on her background in dance and performance. The video and score demonstrate how bodies are not becoming stagnant but moving to precisely designed prompts. The project draws attention to how what might feel like an unmediated real-life interaction remains a highly interface-regulated gesture.