FCJ-150 AffeXity: Performing Affect with Augmented Reality

• Main Author: Susan Kozel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Open Humanities Press 2012-01-01
• Series: Fibreculture Journal
• Subjects: affect; performance; affect and performance; locative media; choreography; mobile media; Malmö
• Online Access: http://twentyone.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-150-affexity-performing-affect-with-augmented-reality/

This discussion of affect and performance is based on early research for an artistic project called AffeXity exploring the use of augmented reality to embed affective choreographies in urban spaces. Affect is understood in terms of intensities and contingency, while performance is defined as a triangulation of bodily movement, emergence and shimmering. After a brief reflection on how technical development and artistic processes impact each other, the middle section of this article contains ‘an inventory of shimmers’ which are words from the processes of dance improvisation, video capture and editing. A methodological perspective is proposed. It is called affective sensibility.