A richly synoptic view of the flow of analytic approaches to movement in the arts: a general calculus of bodily motion, a geometry of dance, and a history of notation techniques, animation, and motion capture, offering a superbly perceptive synthesis of approaches to movement as it is recast after computation.
Matthew Fuller, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
In this wonderfully wide-ranging book, Nicolás Salazar Sutil provides a powerful and original interpretation of the importance of kinetopoiesis—the movement languages that emerge at the intersection of mathematics, kinematics, and dance. Bringing together movement and mind, thought and gesture, Salazar Sutil shows us that these languages have both inventive and disturbing capacities for the way we live our lives.
Celia Lury, Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
Nicolás Salazar Sutil calls on a dizzying array of sources in support of an integrated theory of motion, one that connects human motion to the movement of data and the speed of thought. This is one of those wildly synthetic books that challenges you to rethink your assumptions about how you inhabit a postdigital world.
Frazer Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Smith College, and author of No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience
Motion and Representation offers a new, transdisciplinary framework for theorizing the reflexive engendering of movement through cultural constructs and technologies of representation, usefully contributing to scholarship on the very emergence of movement form. Of critical value for aesthetic movement research, Salazar Sutil addresses movement's apparent paradoxes, its differential and extravisual modalities.
Meredith Morse, art historian and scholar of modern and contemporary dance, and author of a forthcoming book on Simone Forti
