YMYI at Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2008)

YMYI - You Move You Interact
Digital Art Project

Exhibition at Centro Cultural Vila Flôr
July 2008
Guimarães, Portugal

João Martinho Moura - http://www.jmartinho.org
Jorge Sousa

Music: Artur Moura (Ontoêta - http://www.ontoeta.com

YMYI is the investigation result in the Digital Art Project, from the Master in Technology and Digital Art, University of Minho.

contact: info@ymyi.org
official site: http://www.ymyi.org

about YMYI:
YMYI - You Move You Interact.
Space where the user interacts with a living image through his body movements.

Conception:

YMYI (You Move You Interact) is an interactive installation, where one is supposed to build up a body language dialogue with an artificial system so as to effectively achieve a synchronized performance between the real user´s body and the virtual object itself. The project aims at exploring a spatial sphere,where the user/performer is invited to develop his own creative inspiration based on his own body gestures and movements.

During the whole time assigned to research related to both the development and the scientific foundation stone of the prototype itself, we realised, in so far as the expectations brought on the user of the YMYI platform were concerned, that we were dealing with two key conceptions - narrative and image. Underlying these concepts, in-between the dual dimension of the human body and its perception of itself and the surrounding environment,we truly believe that the definitions given on this subject by the scientist António Damásio constituted a resourceful enlightement to the scope of our investigation.


Joao Martinho Moura
Jorge Sousa