March 13, 2006

Expanding the Possibilities of Hyperchoreography

Matt Gough in his Splines in Space blog has a post, "network choreography - ii," in which he offers his thoughts on how the collaborative tools of web2.0 applications can be fused with digital dance videos to create new ways for online users to experience and create dance.

Here's a screen shot of the interface of the video-editing application that Matt envisions which would allow users to merge together dance videos:

I'll write more about Matt's post soon, but I have to ask him some questions because there are some concepts he discusses that I don't understand. His post, however, covers similar ideas to what I wrote about in "Spreading Dance with Mashup" last Friday.

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March 3, 2006

Pictures from "Who's in Control" Program

I happened to stumble across these pictures on Flickr taken by floorvan from last weekend's "Who's in Control" program that I attended.

Here's a shot of Arthur Elsenaar preparing to have his facial muscles activited via electrical jolts sent through the electrodes you see attached to his face.

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February 23, 2006

Harvestworks - "Who's in Control? New Interfaces for Artistic Expression

I'll be in New York this coming weekend at a program offered by Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group called "Who's in Control? New Interfaces for Artistic Expression." The performances and educational sessions will take place at Eyebeam.

This symposium explores developments in computer interfaces for the visual and performance arts. I'll write about the programs and performances over the weekend or next week.

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September 26, 2005

Call for Presentations: Conference on Digital Technologies and Performance Arts

Kate Sicchio, who recently received her masters in digital performance from the School of Intermedia and Performance Arts at Doncaster College, emailed me the call for papers, presentations and performances for next year's 2nd International Conference for Digital Technologies and Performance Arts.

View Word document to read complete call for presentations.

Proposals are invited for papers, performances, presentations, workshops and poster presentations on the following topics:

- Live performance and interactive systems
- Motion capture/motion-sensing technologies
- Performance pedagogy, education and new media
- HCI and live performance
- Web based performance and virtual performance spaces
- Realtime music control
- Gesture and interactive multimedia
- Interdisciplinarity and new media
- Performance software/hardware development

I always liked thee "Playing Groups" dance performance weblog that Kate created in 2003. I encourage you to take a look at her blog, which allowed visitors to comment on the choreography of a dance piece as it was being developed and practiced. Users could both watch video clips and commentary and then offer their feedback.

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