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Meditation in Motion: Interactive Media Art Visualization Based on Ancient Tai Chi Chuan

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Ze Gao,

Anqi Wang,

Pan Hui,

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MM '22: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Pages 7241 - 7242

https://doi.org/10.1145/3503161.3549967

Published: 10 October 2022 Publication History

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Tai Chi is an essential concept of Chinese philosophy which refers to the universe's most primitive state of order. Tai Chi Chuan is a martial art and meditative practice that incorporates the Tai Chi philosophy. With the advent of the digital media age, this traditional martial art is falling into disuse, and most contemporary youths are losing interest. "Meditation in Motion" is an interactive media art installation inspired by the Tai Chi Chuan forms. It aims to convey the central concepts of balance, narrative, and universe of Tai Chi Chuan by breaking down its movements into overlapping circles, building a visual representation of the energy flows in the body.

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"Meditation in Motion" is an interactive media art installation inspired by the Tai Chi Chuan forms. Tai Chi Chuan is a martial art and meditative practice that incorporates the Tai Chi philosophy. With the advent of the digital media age, this traditional martial art is falling into disuse, and most contemporary youths are losing interest. The art installation aims to convey the central concepts of Balance, Narrative, and Universe of Tai Chi Chuan by breaking down its movements into overlapping circles, building a visual representation of the energy flows in the body. The system leverages a Kinect depth camera to capture user motion, the Processing software running on a Mac mini to generate the 2D representations, and a projector to visualise the forms in real-time. By relying on abstract shapes, the proposed system encourages the audience to experiment with finding their balance and visualise the resulting energy flowing through their body according to Tai Chi.

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MM '22: Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

October 2022

7537 pages

ISBN:9781450392037

DOI:10.1145/3503161

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NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
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University of Florence, Italy
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National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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University of Trento, Italy
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Renmin University of China, China
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Wu ZGao ZBraud T(2023)Unlogical instrument: Material-driven gesture-controlled sound installationCompanion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563703.3596643(86-89)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563703.3596643
Gao ZZhang XZhu SBraud T(2022)Metanalysis: A connected-wall video installation based on the movement of traditional Chinese ink painting2022 Third International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology (ARTeFACTo)10.1109/ARTeFACTo57448.2022.10061258(1-6)Online publication date: 24-Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ARTeFACTo57448.2022.10061258

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