Date: 28 May (full day)
Location: University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bielefeld
This workshop introduces students to motion capture as a tool for translating embodied movement into digital systems, using Rokoko Smartsuit Pro II.
Participants will gain hands-on experience in setting up, calibrating, and working with motion capture suits, while critically reflecting on how bodies are transformed into data within immersive environments. The workshop addresses both technical and conceptual dimensions, including motion capture workflows and real-time pipelines, the calibration and recording of movement data, and the ways in which motion is abstracted, simplified, and reconstructed within digital systems. Particular attention is given to the shift that occurs when the body becomes an interface, continuously translated into a system of signals and representations.
The workshop concludes with short movement studies that extend into hybrid choreographies, where motion capture interfaces with simple robotic systems. These studies culminate in presentations of human–machine choreographies, exploring how movement circulates between body, data, and machine.
Prof. Herwig Scherabon — Immersive Environments
Faculty of Design and Art — Digital Media and Experiment