Transmedia Kowledge-Base
TKB – A Transmedia Knowledge-Base for Contemporary Dance was a transdisciplinary research project (2010–2013), coordinated by Carla Fernandes and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, PTDC/EAT-AVP/098220/2008). Working between linguistics and performing arts studies, it designed and built an open-ended multimodal knowledge-base to document, annotate and support the creation of contemporary dance pieces. The project was based at the Linguistics Centre of NOVA FCSH (CLUNL), in partnership with the Interactive Multimedia Group of NOVA's Faculty of Science and Technology, the Linguistics Centre of the University of Porto (CLUP), the choreographic centre O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo) and the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK). The platform was launched online on 5 June 2016, as part of the 14th edition of Alkantara Festival. https://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt/
Stephan worked on the project as a researcher and invited choreographer. His main focus was:
Collaborating as a choreographer, with his digital performance piece .txt, on design specifications and usability tests for the development of the CREATION-TOOL.
The CREATION-TOOL is an original video annotator, designed and developed from scratch as a software output of the TKB project. It supports multimodal annotation and is applied to contemporary dance as a tool for performance composition, functioning as a digital notebook for choreographers' personal annotations. The prototype, developed for Tablet PCs, allows video annotation in real time, using a live video stream, or post-event, using pre-recorded video. It supports different annotation modalities (marks, text, audio, ink strokes and hyperlinks) and different modes of annotation and video visualisation.
Related publications:
Jürgens, S. (2016). Three methods of designing a workflow with multimodal video annotation in interdisciplinary choreographic processes. In Fernandes, C. (ed.) Multimodality and Performance, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 159-178.
Jürgens, S. (2014). Transmedia Choreography: Integrating Multimodal Video Annotation in the Creative Process of a Social Robotics Performance Piece. Body, Space & Technology 13,1. Open Library of Humanities.
Fernandes, C. and Jürgens, S. (2013). Video annotation in the TKB project: Linguistics meets choreography meets technology. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 9,1. Taylor & Francis, 115-134.
Jürgens, S. (2010). Using new media technologies in dance improvisation classes. Cadernos PAR, 108-125. Published by Escola Superior de Design e Artes, Portugal.
Fernandes, C. and Jürgens, S. (2009). Transdisciplinary Research bridging Cognitive Linguistics and Digital Performance: From Multimodal Corpora to Choreographic Knowledgebases. In Schroeder, F. (ed.) Performing Technology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 19-33.
