Haptic Cinema 2009:
a Sensory Interface to the City is an experimental clip made in 2009-10.
Framing Motion Paths in Belfast 2010:
From motion to emotion, the body sites are everyday experiences with spaces and places. As an early spatialised form of film in late 1800s E. J. Marey created important steps for legibility of time, and of body in motion. Using digital media through filmic framing we have archigesture of body dynamics as mapping personal motion paths in the city. Moving image has helped embed a sort of dynamic equilibrium of the body motion as a topographic space. Marey formalised spatial origin of motion, here we have morphogenesis between public and personal infrastructures; primitive yet, indispensable.
This is another haptic motion exploration using filmic framing technique. The subject is Traffic in Tehran and the cars are portrayed are living beings like human bodies. Their rhythmic movement are mapped using film and the city streets, yet another archigestural depiction using moving image and algorithmic split-screens. Music is by John Zorn: Masada Guitars..
'Archigesture as Spatial Dynamic Analysis of Architectural Adaptation to Gesture'
I'm testing 'Archigesture' as a modelling concept for filmic mapping of expressive spaces through gestural and temporal analysis of bodies and objects' interactions in space. Archigesture in my research defines an architecture that is adaptive to gesture. How does gesture adapt to space of architecture and vice versa?
Presentation + publications:
- Soltani, A. (2011), Archigestural Time Space: an Archaeology of Embodies Lived Space, TAG 2011 UC Berkeley, USA.
- Soltani, A. (2011), Embodied Airborne Imagery: Low-Altitude Urban Filmic Topography, EVA 2011 London, UK.
- Soltani, A. (2010) Sensations of Nanning, Nanning Urban Planning Bureau Conference, China.
- ArchFilm Matinee: Urban Cinematics (2010), Haptic Mapping of the City, Filmcasino, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2010.
- Soltani, A. (2010), Mapping Architectural Appearances, Affects, and Amodality, City in Film university of Liverpool.
- Soltani, A. (2009), Haptic Cinema: As Sensory Interface to the Filmic City, Narrascape, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Soltani, A. (2009), Cinesensory: A Filmic Model for Reconstruction of Contested City from Haptic Memories, ISEA 2009, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Soltani, A. (2009), Panohaptic Interface for Architectural Moving Image and Filmic Improvisation, EVA 2009 London, UK.
- Soltani, A. (2009), AR Webcams: the Tangible Space of Visible and Invisible in Video, Video Vortex 4, Split, Croatia.
- Soltani, A. (2008), Cinesensory: A Filmic Design for Mapping Urban Sensorial, Design Cinema Conference 08 Design-en-scène, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Soltani, A. & Probst, N. (2000), Codecity: incrementing = true, 5th International Festival for Architecture in Video, The Future & the City; Florence, Italy.
- Soltani, A. & Ng, K. (2000), Transdomain Mapping, 33rd Royal Music Association (RMA) Conference, University of Huddersfield, UK.
