Camouflage Choreography

Camouflage Choreography 迷彩编舞

Liam Young 利亚姆·杨

A music video is set in the Chinese owned and controlled Detroit Economic Zone (DEZ) and is shot with the same laser scanning technologies used by autonomous vehicles. The inhabitants of the near future city are recorded through the eyes of the robots that manage it. In a city that sees everything through a million sensors and camera networks an underground community adorn themselves in machine vision camouflage textiles woven on cnc mills from iridescent silks that scatter the light of scanning technologies to create glitches and distortions in the city wide data set.

In collaboration with world renowned choreographers a series of new dance movements have been developed that disguise the proportions of their bodies from body detection algorithms used by the city’s control networks.  The music video shifts between live action video and machine vision visualizations of the way skeleton detection algorithms are trying to read and recognize the body. Music is provided for the project by iconic Detroit producers Underground Resistance. Fashion and music have always developed in response to existing power structures. The video is a prototype for a new sub cultural movement that may soon emerge in response to emerging smart city technologies.

本音乐视频是在由中国人拥有且管控的底特律经济区（DEZ）拍摄的。该音乐视频的拍摄采用了和自动驾驶车辆相同的激光扫描技术。城市管理者——机器人——将用自己的双眼记录该城市未来的居民。在这座采用一百万个传感器和摄像头网络监控一切的城市中，一个地下社区采用机器视觉的迷彩织物进行装饰。这种迷彩织物采用色彩斑斓的彩色丝线在计算机数控铣床上编织而成，能分散扫描技术的光线，从而在全市的数据集中造成误差和失真。

世界著名的编舞家通过本项目合作，开发了一系列新的舞蹈动作，可掩饰舞者的身体比例，使各种城市控制网所用的肢体检测算法失效。音乐视频在现场实拍视频和采用骨架检测算法试图读取和识别人体的机器视觉效果之间转换。本项目所用音乐由底特律著名制作人“地下反抗乐团”提供。时尚和音乐的发展历来都体现了现有的权力架构。该视频是一种新型亚文化运动的原型。这种亚文化运动可能很快就会出现，是对新兴的智慧城市技术的一种呼应。

Credits:

Liam Young