Liam Young, Jacob Jones — Choreographic Camouflage (2021)

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Choreographic Camouflage is a performance collaboration between speculative architect and director Liam Young and acclaimed choreographer Jacob Jonas. The dance performance and film presents a new vocabulary of movement that has been designed to disguise the proportions of their body from the skeleton detection algorithms used by modern city’s surveillance networks to track and identify individuals. The work engages with the context of these systems as deployed against protestors in Hong Kong, where Chinese authorities have developed software to follow an individual by mapping their unique walk or gait. The necessity to wear masks to prevent the spread of the Corona Virus has restricted the effectiveness of facial detection systems. Body tracking and gait detection has now become the dominant form of surveillance in Asia and soon globally. These programs scan massive databases of collected images and cctv footage, searching for predefined human forms and proportions that suggest two legs, a torso, two arms and a head. Working with dancers from The Jacob Jonas Company a series of new dance movements have been developed to distort the proportions, symmetry and form of the body in order to render it invisible to the body detection software that is now being rolled out by city’s around the world.

体の動きや歩き方での個人の認識を妨げるをこと意図したダンスの動き、コレオグラフィ