2023/11/23 by Le Zhou, Zhou, Aven Le, Jiayi Ye +5
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Psychology · #Art Education and Development #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Digital Media and Visual Art #Diversity and Impact of Dance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Multimedia (cs.MM)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2311.13770
openalex publication_date 2023/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
As a communication channel, body movements have been widely explored in behavioral studies and kinesics. Performing and visual arts share the same interests but focus on documenting and representing human body movements, such as for dance notation and visual work creation. This paper investigates body movements in oriental calligraphy and how to apply calligraphy principles to stimulate and archive body movements. Through an artwork (Wushu), the authors experiment with an interactive and generative approach to engage the audience's bodily participation and archive the body movements as a compendium of generated calligraphy. The audience assumes the role of both writers and readers; creating ("writing") and appreciating ("reading") the generated calligraphy becomes a cyclical process within this infinite "Book," which can motivate further attention and discussions concerning Chinese characters and calligraphy.