The workshops attempt to warm up and pick up the skills and mindset for the coming MSc2 studio of HyperBody LAB:
Inter_Performing Environment
Diverse Bodies + Animate Bodies + Kinectic Bodies
( Generate Monster + Emotive Monster + Bodies Monster )
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The "Diverse Bodies" workshop mainly focuses on the relationship
between simple variables and complex geometries. In other words, how to create
various and diverse geometries out of simple but elegant rules and parameters.
In nature, all organisms follows this beautiful simple-to-complex notion to build
up bodies. Therefore, the workshop will try to implement this natural growth
inspiration to a spatial application. The tool this workshop will mainly be
used is Processing. All participants will learn from basic to advance
techniques of Processing.
===Tutorials Link===

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The "Animate Bodies" workshop mainly focuses on the interaction
between human and spatial environment. Further than normal adaptation in
nature, the workshop proposes the space itself becomes a living creature. The possible
answer of the questions, such as, how this spatial creature reacts? What is its
motion respond to the human involved in will extensively being discussed. The
workshop also tries to reverse the conventional spatial ideas of static and
passive into dynamic and aggressive. The tool this workshop will mainly be used
is Arduino, Grasshopper & Firefly. All participants will learn from basic
to advance techniques of these interactive techniques.
===Tutorials Link===
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The "Kinectic Bodies" workshop
mainly focuses on the discussion of "Body-Instrument". The workshop attempts
to propose an idea of taking human body as a performer who can play the
instrument of space. In other words, our body motions can physically trigger
the movement of spatial environment. Moreover, by extending the notion from
Animate_Bodies workshop, space itself can be treated as a living creature, so the
instrument will no longer be an passive object but an active subject. The
interaction between body and space will be more like the chemistry of partners at a dance performance. The tool this
workshop will mainly be used is Processing and XBOX Kinect device. All
participants will learn from basic techniques of Kinect.