"Signals from a Moving Body" is a project that explores the relationship between movement, observation, and systems of measurement through a custom-built, button-activated motion tracking suit. Outfitted with eight 6-DoF sensors across my limbs, the suit allows me to capture gestures in both public and private environments, translating them to an observable data equivalent. Each motion becomes a signal—recorded in real time, then explored through sound, video, and gestural notations.

I am interested in what it means for the body to “do” its own surveillance rather than that being imposed. The ability to capture data is controlled at will with a button, leaving that choice to the wearer.  I want to do this in a way that allows for abstraction and error. I am already siloing the motion of my own body to a sort of numerical, computational parallel, much in the way our own “data” exists in multiple forms and are used for a variety of different means outside of our control, so I’m curious to generate my own abstractly on my own terms using mediums of my choice. 

The captured data is transformed into motion directed sound compositions, a film using personal and found footage, and print-based scores.