
Asphyxia is a project by Maria Takeuchi and Frederico Phillips that combines dance with motion capture technology, using two normal Xbox One Kinect sensors to capture the movements of dancer Shiho Tanaka. The data was then rendered inside a near photo-realistic environment. Here's what the duo have to say: "The project is an effort to explore new ways to use and/or combine technologies and different fields in an experiment without many of the common commercial limitations. The performance is centered in an eloquent choreography that stresses the desire to be expressive without bounds." Continue reading for a video, more pictures and additional information.