Technology and media in the Arts

“The games can be understood as performances based on the presence of a live, performing body that acts and enacts through a computer-generated image, yet also serves as spectator/audience for the action.” “Navigating the space of the game, the real body performs through as assumed alias, and in doing so, can adopt aspects of that character, stretching into the surrogated character’s game space, while remaining paradoxically detached, alienated.” (Burrill, 2005) I never think that video games have objective of education. Video game just having fun and get rid of stress by playing. Even though I think video game is bad for children. It is that I make a mistake out of ignorance. After read articles I have a way of turning around.

“Dance games, a popular and fascinating new genre of interactive game, offer an example of an activity that is a hybridization of several preexisting cultural forms…They also feature structures that are closed, flat, or open, as well as matrices of activity that cross the boundaries between games, play, and performance.”(Burrill, 2005) Using these kinds of machine, young people or adults improve creative movement and improvisation skills. If someone develops video game with Laban motif symbol that it is good idea for children. The Laban “Motif symbols were developed from the basic Labanotation symbols. Labanotation was evolved to record specific movement patterns therefore the symbols are definitive. The direction symbols, for instance, describe specific points around the body. However more open, general movement descriptions were needed, so many of these symbols had to be modified for Motif Notation. In the initial exploration of movement, there is a need to provide freedom, to give the options of ‘any direction’ or ‘any level’. Through these, the student can explore the flexibility in use of directions and the expressiveness each provides. In Motif, to experience the range of possibilities in this category, statements such as ‘any form of extension’, ‘any degree of extension’ is needed.” (Language of dance centre) It outcomes that students will develop, know and understand the basic movement concepts and skills which serve as creating dance and performing with Laban motif symbols.