The body as moving structure in Fashion Design processes

The human body movement is idiosyncratic and always challenging to document. This research explores ephemeral body movements and their documentation through the body-machine interface. The aim is to explore the body’s aesthetics and find possibilities of the use of the body as a moving structure in fashion design processes. These ephemeral body movements are documented through an installation setup consisting of a computer, posenet (the machine learning model), camera both video and computer screen. This reflects on how the machine interface translates the body and its movement through embodied interaction. The human body is translated into seventeen dots forming new bodily expressions based on the spatial level and structural characteristics of it while moving. The installation setup serves as a method in general or in fashion design processes to create alternative design expressions.