[dance-tech] Invitation: Senses Places @ DRHA 2011 conference
- From: isabel valverde <isabelv63@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: isabel valverde <isabelv63@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:57:53 -0700 (PDT)
SENSES PLACES
Cross-cultural Embodiments through Hybrid
Participatory Performance Environment
Performance and Round Table
Tuesday, September 6
Nottingham University @ Ningbo, China: 4.00pm-6.00pm
Digital Hollywood University @ Tokyo, Japan:
5.00pm-7.00pm
Senses Places @ Second Life: 1.00am-3.00am
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/233/233/3005
Performance
Senses Places is a dance-technology collaborative project creating
a playful mixed reality performance environment for audience participation.
Generating whole body multimodal interfacings keen to a somatic cross-cultural
approach, the project stresses an integration of simultaneous local and remote
connections, where participants and environments meet towards a
kinesthetic/synesthetic engagement.
Grounded by a shared score and Second Life© Sim, performer-facilitators
initiate the performance at the conference in China and at another node in
Japan, soon tuning the audience members to several modes of physical-virtual
body-body and body-environment interactions. Re-purposing the Web 2.0 and
recent game devices with a synergetic/semantic approach to interface design,
the interfaces include, video and avatar mediations via webcam, Wiimote©, and
Kinect©, plus a biometric device.
Through an inclusive process engaging kinesthetic empathy,Senses Places deepens
contemporary dance practices, such as, Contact Improvisation and
Butoh, weaving Eastern-Western somatic based on ancient and contemporary Tai
Chi, Yôga, Body-Mind Centering, Release, and Alexander Techniques. The
improvisation evolves in a sharing of corporealized places, times, and
energies, encouraging a fuller experience of the moment.
Emerging embodiments, realities, and cultures are generated by the
multi-participant playful involvement as the participants follow, act upon, and
respond to their own and each other’s physical bodies, video mediations, avatar
moves, and/or environmental changes. Climate related body-environment activity
is affected through the wireless communication, linking biometric inputs and
environmental device actuators, such as, temperature-light/color,
breathing-smoke/wind modulations.
Senses Places wishes to contribute to enlarge the range and
interconnectedness of sensory-perceptions within the already complex practice
of the inter-subjective and group improvisation, proposing a constructive and
transformative means of socialization, reversing the dead end substitution,
gender and movement cultural stereotypification, and instrumentalization of
bodies by avatars in social networks, such as Second Life.
Round Table
Following the performance, the Round Table discussion will include the
authors/collaborators in China and Japan and all participants to reflect upon
aspects addressed by the performance experience amongst physical, remote, and
in-between embodiments and environments; as well as the implications posed by
inter and trans-cultural issues, dimensions and particularities, concerning new
(mixed reality) choreographic and performative processes, forms, formats,
discourses, audience reach and participation.
The recent access to global communication network platforms has been
influencing and challenging media art trends, including performance and dance.
New formats, concepts and work methodologies produce mixed reality internet
networked performances, including, Telematic art, Web/Net art, and Metaverse
art, such as Second Life Art. However, rarely do these works integrate or
address the implicit embodied cultural intercourse, such as collaborations
amongst artists/audience participants from different places/nations/regions.
Confronting our illiteracy towards ethnic, cultural, and embodied hydridity, we
want to discuss notions and practices concerning local/physical and
global/mediatized
trans-cultural choreography, kinesthesia, communication, and technology,
including:
− How is movement and gesture-based media
work, and its discourses concerning corporeality, contributing to the emergence
and development of more inclusive modes of creating, interacting and
communicating amongst artists/subjects from different cultures?
− How are aesthetics principles, methods,
forms or strategies already hybrids, nomads, and mutants, converging as well as
differentiating Western and Eastern nations and cultures' movement forms as
transnational modes of contemporary production, like Butoh (Japan) and New
Dance (USA and Europe)?
− How do such exchanges, appropriations and
assimilations alter the concepts, practices and artworks being produced? How
are these approaches deconstructing audiovisual dominant tendencies, towards
the development of more inclusive, though not universal, subjective aesthetics?
- What characterizes the mutating
transnational trans-cultural performance production within the recent
complexity of globalized technoculture?
− How can or does transmedia performance
accentuate and accelerate national, and cultural exchanges, converging and
differentiating nations and cultures into new paradigmatic dimensions? Will
trans-disciplinary approaches to art, science, technology, and theory provide
the adequate structures and intelligent network platforms and processes for the
posthuman paradigmatic condition?
MainCollaborators and Round Table Participants
In Ningbo, China:
Isabel Valverde (researcher, choreographer, dancer)
Institute of Humane Studies and Intelligent Sciences, PT
Todd Cochrane (educator, SL and interface computing),
Wellington Institute of Technology, NZ
DRHA 2011 Conference Technical Assistants
In Tokyo, Japan:
Yukihiko Yoshida (dance critic and researcher)
Keio University
Keiji Mitsubuchi (educator, Second Life and web computing)
Digital Hollywood University
Jun Makime (independent choreographer/dancer)
Hidenori Watanave (technologist, SL and system mapping)
Google Earth
Digital Hollywood Student Assistants
Short Bios
Todd Cochrane is an experienced educator using MUVEs and a
computer technologist who runs the HCI, web development and programming
principles classes at the Wellington Institute of Technology, in Wellington New
Zealand. He is an expert software developer who has experience with 3D web cam
to Virtual World data transfer. Todd is studying towards a Ph. D. in Education
on How to use MUVEs effectively in vocational contexts.
Jun Makime (dance experience) Contemporary Dance, Butoh,
Performance, (technologies): Film Maker, Dance Installation. He worked for the
theme; “Body and Society” for years. He learned theater, dance, ballet, yoga,
and many types of expression in fields. Now, he releases his work, which is on
“Body” as dancer/performer/choreographer/film artist director/Producer. 2003
MONACO dance forum (MONACO) [video dance] 2009 Exhibition, Studying
Contemporary Art (Lyon Castro): Installation, 2010 Choreographic Installation,
“Ukiyo Moveable World” Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadlers Wells, London, 26th Nov
2010 (This research project is funded by Japan Foundation, PMI2 Connect/British
Council Grant and RDF Grant by Brunel University)
Keiji Mitsubuchiis Professor at Digital Hollywood University,
pioneering the use of Second Life in graduate education in Japan. CEO at Nihon
Web Concepts Inc.. Founding member of Metaverse Association. Mitsubuchi was a
Researcher at Omron company. Master of Science at Stanford University, and BS
Computer Science at the University of San Francisco.
Isabel Valverde is a transdisciplinary performer,
choreographer and scholar from Portugal. Develops experimental solo and
collaborative work since 1986. Graduated in Dance Theory and History (UCR),
Interdisciplinary Arts (SFSU), New Dance (SNDD/AHK) and Dance (FMH/UTL),
Isabel’s doctoral thesis, Interfacing Dance and Technology: a theoretical
framework for performance in the digital domain, was translated into
Portuguese (FCG/FCT, 2010). Present postdoctoral research in Dances and
Technologies (BPD/FCT) at the Institute of Humane Studies and Intelligent
Sciences, and VIMMI/INESC-ID, includes performance practice-theory,
collaborating in cross-realities and cultures participatory performance
environments,
working in soma-tech based choreography.
Yukihiko Yoshida is a dance critic and researcher. He
has written numerous reviews and articles for dance magazines and newspapers.
Additionally, he works for network divisions of some academic organizations and
constructing research grid on dance. He studies dance and technology and has
worked for the International Advisory Boards of the Digital Community Division,
Prix Ars Electronica (2005-2009) and as assistant of Prof. Ted Nelson and
Project Xanadu, the original Hypertext project. He is a Visiting Senior
Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC Keio University, and a Ph.D.
candidate in the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. He
is also committee member of Dance Critics Society of Japan.
Hidenori Watanave (technologies) Mapping Technologies with
Google Earth, Second Life. Hidenori Watanave, Makiko Suzuki Harada and Shuuichi
Endou: “Tuvalu Visualization Project” Net Art on Digital Globe That Tells The
Realities of Remote Place; Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan
Vol.15 No.3, page 307-314, 2010. Hidenori Watanave/ Shuuichi Endou,
"Tuvalu Visualization Project", nominated as a finalist of
Yahoo!Japan Internet Creative Award 2010.
Support
Wellington Institute of Technology, NZ
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, PT
Digital Hollywood University, JP
DRHA 2011 Conference Committee, UK/China
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