This video shows a representation of a woman dancing as seen by an Xbox Kinect. The dancer is shown as a mesh of white dots connected by white lines. She moves slowly, pushing the lines The background is completely black. The individuality of the dancer is hidden by the anonymising mesh of dots, but the form can be recognised as human. Haunting music accompanies the moving images of the dancer. The camera is mostly fairly still, but sometimes moves, suddenly, and towards the end, there are moments of glitch where the image jumps. At the very end, the (dotted) body is seen from above, and the image glitches, emphasising the machinic view we are seeing from.Â
For a detailed and insightful interpretation, see:
Chang, Vanessa. ‘Catching the Ghost: The Digital Gaze of Motion Capture’. Journal of Visual Culture 18, no. 3 (December 2019): 305–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412919841022.