Scott Allen Miller, composer – musicmiller.com
The NYU Movement Lab was a motion capture studio and research group dedicated to the analysis and animation of all forms of human movement. It was housed at NYU's ITP Tisch School of the Arts , and Courant Institute's VLG . Many projects were at the boundary between computer science, dance, performance art, animation, medical research, and other uses of motion capture technology. It was mainly funded by grants from NYU, the National Science Foundation, ONR, and Sloan Foundation.
The Movement Lab, in collaboration with the New York Times, installed high-speed motion capture cameras in a studio of the Juilliard School at New York's Lincoln Center in order to study the movement of New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert. Using advanced computer software with new visualization techniques, the team transformed this motion data, tracing the intricacies of Gilbert's gestures for the Times feature "The Maestro's Mojo."
The NYU Movement Lab's new Squidball platform " crowd2cloud " will premiere at TEDx NYU on April 14, 2012. Squidball was first unveiled as the world's largest-scale motion capture game to 4,000 player audiences at SIGGRAPH 2004 , and continued all over the world, including Ars Electronica 2010, and many other venues in New York and California.
Scott Allen Miller, composer – musicmiller.com