Transmedia Kowledge-Base
The Transmedia Knowledge-Base for performing arts (TKB) was conceived as a dynamic and open-ended resource to be launched online on the 5th of June of 2016, as part of the 14th edition of Alkantara Festival. It works as a digital relational platform for all interested creators, performers and researchers in sharing their creative processes, working methods or finished pieces in the performing arts field. In the interstices between linguistics and performing arts studies, TKB was an extensive and transdisciplinay project aiming at the design and construction of an open-ended multimodal knowledge-base to document, annotate and support the creation of contemporary dance pieces. https://tkb.fcsh.unl.pt/
Stephan has worked as a core researcher of the TKB project at the NOVA University of Lisbon. His main focus has been:
Stephan collaborated as a choreographer with his digital performance piece .txt on design specifications and usibility tests for the development of the CREATION-TOOL.
The CREATION-TOOL is an original video annotator that was designed and developed from scratch as a software output deriving from the TKB project. It supports multimodal annotation and is applied to contemporary dance as a tool to support performance composition. It was conceived and designed to assist the creative processes of choreographers, functioning as a digital notebook for personal annotations. The prototype, developed for Tablet PCs, allows video annotation in real-time, using a live video stream, or post-event, using a pre-recorded video stream. The tool also allows different video annotation modalities, such as annotation marks, text, audio, ink strokes and hyperlinks. In addition, the system enables different modes of annotation and video visualization.
Publications resulting from this research:
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.
