[dance-tech] UKIYO 2 [Moveable World] / workshop and tour
- From: "Johannes Birringer" <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 16:20:39 +0100
The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance and DAP-Lab at
School of the Arts, Brunel University (West London) announce:
Ukiyo 2
[Moveable World]
June 1 - June 6
Antonin Artaud Studio 101, Brunel University, Cleveland Rd., West London
After two labs at Brunel University (May 2009) and Keio University (December
2009), the forthcoming one is the third cross-cultural UKIYO workshop in
performance, design and network technologies featuring artists and researchers
from the DAP-Lab and Japanese partners from Keio University and Maison d'Artaud
(Tokyo).
The project involves collaborative research experimentation conjoining
artistic, technological and scientific disciplines. Based on a design libretto
for the composition of a mixed reality installation - Ukiyo [Moveable World]-
the workshop develops performance concepts for linking physical performance
spaces with virtual spaces/Second Life and a diverse range of innovative
wearable design and programming, including:
- choreographies with interactional design and audio processing
- design for wearable garments and audiophonics
- photographic/videographic image composition for interactional performance
- scenographic concepts for real time processes in networked virtual
environments
(telematic and Second Life)
- avatar performance and animation
- programming of mixed reality environments
- analysis of sensory processing, polyphonics, and multimodal perception
The workshop takes place every day from 14:oo to 21:3o in Antonin Artaud Studio
101. Interested observers are welcome.
The UKIYO project will be concluded in June 2010 with the ensemble touring
Slovenia, with public exhibitions of UKIYO 2 and a workshop held at KIBLA in
Maribor. In November/December 2010, the new production and wearable designs
is projected for its London premiere, with the expected participation of Yoko
Higashino and Baby Q Contemporary Dance Company.
Interested institutions and Art Centers can contact us about residencies and
performances.
UKIYO 2
A mixed reality installation fusing dance, sound, design and digital projections
European première: Friday, June 8, 2o:oo
KIBLA Media Art Center / Maribor, Slovenia
http://www.kibla.org/napovednik/?no_cache=1
presenting
dap-lab / dans sans joux
Conceived and directed by Johannes Birringer, the installation features
audiophonic fashion design concepts and wearables by Michèle Danjoux, and
choreography by Katsura Isobe, Helenna Ren, Anne-Laure Misme, Yiorgos Bakalos
and Olu Taiwo; choreography on screen by Biyo Kikuchi, Kayoko Tokumitsu, Yumi
Sagara, and Jun Makime; photography and digital designs by Paul Verity Smith
and Doros Polydorou; original music composed by Oded Ben-Tal, with live music
composed and performed by Caroline Wilkins and digital sound and sensor
interfaces by Sandy Finlayson. Scenography & lighting by Johannes Birringer.
"Ukiyo" explores the layers of perceptions in an audiovisual world that
constantly shifts and fragments; the audience is invited to move in and around
the space which features one of five hanamichi (runways) and several projection
screens for the virtual world graphics. The dancers perform simultaneously with
digital objects that are projected. The music and visual choreography for
"Ukiyo" are designed for real-time gestural interaction to animate the
feedback system and generative algorithms through with the virtual space and
the performer movements are intertwined.
"Ukiyo" is performed by an international ensemble of performers from the
DAP-Lab whose work developed in collaboration with digital artists in Tokyo as
part of a cross-cultural research venture in virtual environments directed by
Birringer (director of DAP-Lab, and Center for Digital Performance, Brunel
University, School of Arts) and co-coordinated by Yukihiko Yoshida (Keio
University, Tokyo). The Second Life graphical interface and avatar choreography
was designed and developed by Takeshi Kabata, Yukihito Obara and Ruby Rumiko
Bessho. Additional engineering by Eng Tat Khoo (Keio-NUS CUTE Center & Mixed
Reality Lab).
Website: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/uikyo.html
For further information, call +44 (0)1895 267 343
Or email: Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk
This project is supported by a PMi2/connect British Council research cooperation
Award, a grant by The Japan Foundation, and The Centre for Contemporary and
Digital Performance at Brunel University
Johannes Birringer
director, DAP Lab
School of Arts Brunel University
West London UB8 3PH UK
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap
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