The Image as Moving Trace. From the Gestural to the Imagetic Body
"L’image comme trace en mouvement. Du corps du geste au corps de l’image"
Résumé
From the inception of photography to computer modelling, images
had to construct their own body to reproduce the continuity of
movement or gesture. That is, from manipulating either diagrammatic
components or plastic features (texture or saturation) up to a proper
modulation of the enunciative space itself, emphasizing more precisely
their inner aspectualization, supposed to fit in with the very own temporality
of movement.We will investigate image role and status within
Emio Greco | PC’s Double Skin/Double Mind project. This installation,
mixing high–technology and Human–Machine interaction to tackle
problematic of movement notation and movement reproduction in the
field of dance, constitutes an enunciative device involving body experience,
movement and figurativity. In this respect, we think it is a necessity
to connect multiple semiotics approaches, especially suggestions made
from studies on images and visible, with the theory of the “empreinte”
and thoughts on a possible semiotics of time. As this field of research
both theoretical and practical appears broad and quite new, our analysis
is aimed at outlining trends from relations between the body in motion,
images and temporality without claiming completeness. Introducing
our research subject, we will frame the problematic arising from its
polysensorial nature; the adopted semiotics perspectives will enlighten
interactions between bodies and images within the enunciative space
and enunciative strategies which set up another temporality for the
reproduction of movement.