Embodied Machine is a project of Instituto Stocos (Pablo Palacio and Muriel Romero). For their piece, Instituto Stocos counted on the collaboration of a technical and artistic interdisciplinary group.

Buj Studio participated with the design and fabrication of a new costume that integrates crafts and technology . A responsive second skin for motion capture technology. For this costume, we worked integrating different materialities and processes, natural and artificial, crafts and technologies.

When I wet to Geneva rehearsals I had the chance to see how the motion capture sensors worked over Muriel´s body defining an skeleton that built an artificial intelligence. These sensors defined a second invisible skin attached to Muriel´s body, a kind of a second dancer that expressed itself though light, music and movement. I wanted that these sensors got integrated in Muriel´s skin not as separated tecnological elements, bt as something organic growing naturally from Muriel´s own skin.

Raquel Buj.

We focused on the sensor geometry to create different molds that we tested on latex and bioplastic material. The process was very crafted but also very technical and precise, sensors were placed on an exact body positions regarding the computer body skeleton .

Thank you very much @muriel_stocos and @institutostocos for making us part of it. The performance was presented 11-12th June at @mercatflors .

More info at Instituto Stocos web:

https://www.stocos.com/en/page/embodied-machine-2/

Credits:

ARTISTIC DIRECTION Pablo Palacio and Muriel Romero / CHOREOGRAPHY Muriel Romero / MUSIC Pablo Palacio / DANCER Muriel Romero / INTERACTIVE VISUAL SIMULATION Daniel Bisig / LIGHTING AND LASER Pablo Palacio, Daniel Bisig y Maxi Gilbert / SCENIC SPACE Maxi Gilbert and Instituto Stocos / INTERACTIVE LIGHT PROGRAMMING Instituto

Stocos /IINTERACTIVE SONIFICATION Pablo Palacio / SOFTWARE AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY Daniel Bisig, Pablo Palacio /MOCAP MASTER Pedro Ribot / TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Hugo Can /COSTUME DESIGN Raquel Buj – Buj Studio PRODUCER Instituto Stocos / CO-PRODUCED BY Mercat de les Flors / RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT Cie Gilles Jobin (Geneva) / MOTION CAPTURE Studios 44 MocapLab / WITH THE SUPPORT OF Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Unión Europea (E2.Create-Horizon 2020), Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnología (Zaragoza), L’Animal a l’Esquena (Girona), MAEC- Academia de Espagna a Roma, Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of Zurich (Zurich), Motion Bank Mainz (Germany), Coventry Center for Contemporary Dance Research (UK)

IG credits:

Choreography @muriel_stocos / Music Pablo Palacio / Dancer @muriel_stocos / Visual interactive simulation Daniel Bisig / Lighting and lasers Pablo Palacio, Daniel Bisig @mxgilbert / Scenic space @mxgilbert @xlr_estudio @institutostocos / Interactive light programming @institutostocos / Interactive sonification Pablo Palacio / Software and interactive technology Daniel Bisig, a Pablo Palacio / Mocap master @pedro.ribot / Technical Director @hugocahn / Costume Design Raquel Buj @buj.studio, assistants: @__migana__ @aline_3003 @marina.alwarez / Producer @institutostocos / Coproduced @mercatflors / Research and development support @ciegillesjobin / Motion capture Studios 44 MocapLab

Video @pnieto.films