http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/artaudforum.html

All  lectures and panel discussions will be live streamed from London, this weekwekend.

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DAP-lab.TV

Member of the dance-tech.tv network

http://dance-tech.tv/videos/daplabtv/

ARTAUD FORUM 2:  Konnecting Gestures                                                             

Artaud Performance Centre

Friday, March 30                                                                                

20:oo  Opening Address (Artaud Performance Centre 001)

20:15        Sonic Arts Concert  (001)

Featuring:      Sonic Arts Ensemble, and vocalist Jennifer Walshe.
                       Intermisison
                      Thomas Köner and Carl Faia: The Futurist Manifesto


Saturday, March 31      

09:30  Registration / Coffee   (Artaud Performance Centre)

10:30   A001: Keynote:   Pieter Verstraete on gestures and sound                                

11:30   Welcome address, William Leahy, Head of School

11:35 – 13:00  Roundtable 1 (with presentations by Julian Henriques,
Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Nick Collins)                              


13:00   Lunch break                                                                                                                                                                             
14:00 –17:00  Physical Movement/ Sound Lab (001)  BadCo with Ivana Ivkovic &
Zrinka Uzbinec
14:oo – 17:00 Electronics Lab on Kinect interfaces (003)  Ian Winters
14:00 – 17:oo  Clinic with Carl Faia (Music and Programming); Presentation of new work/demo by Arthur Elsenaar

Short Coffee break                                                                                                                                                                              
17:10   Roundtable 2:  Reflections on Sound Performance
(with presentations by Jay Murphy, Nicolas Salazar-Sutil; Claudia Robles;
John Collingswood; Ian Winters)

18:30   Reception / dinner buffet, followed by art openings:                            

19:30   Installation-Performances  (101) (103)(115) (107)(109)
            "Cabinets of Post-Digital Curiosities": performance installations by Camilla Baratt-Due (N/D), Jörg Brinkmann (D),
            Arthur Elsenaar (NL),   Kate Genevieve & Alex Peckham (UK), Rebecca Horrox (UK) & Dani Ploeger (NL/D/UK)

21:00   Concert & Performance Installations (001)
           John Collingswood “Duet for Three” / Frieder Weiss, “Blue Flow”   /    Simon    
           Katan "DarkStar"    

      Julie Wilson-Bokowiec, with Mark Bokowiec:    
      “V'Oct(Ritual)”                                                                                     

Sunday, April 1

10:00    Presentation:     Body Performance Noise  (introduction)
                                      Darren Vincent Tunstall: Non-verbal communication/embodied experiential knowledge
11:00   Roundtable 3 (Artist presenters: Camilla Baratt-Due, Jörg Brinkmann, Arthur
                                      Elsenaar, Kate Genevieve, Rebecca Horrox
  Response panel: Alissa Clarke (performance studies scholar, De
 Montfort University),
                                     Sophia Gräfe (media art critic, Bauhaus University Weimar),
                                     Niall Richardson (media and film theorist, University of Sussex)
                                     Chair: Dani Ploeger (Brunel University)


13:00  Lunch break

14:00  Theatre / Sound Lab :     KINECT 2, and Frieder Weiss
            Clinics with Carl Faia, Daniel Ploeger

16:00   Roundtable 4
(moderated by Johannes Birringer, featuring Julie Wilson-Bokowiec and Mark Bokowicz, Nick Till,  Frieder Weiss, Carl Faia, Simon Katan, and guests)

17:00   Concluding Remarks

Be with us!!

Marlon

Trailblazing Conceptual Walks Organization Announces Third Season

Two years ago, Elastic City was just an innovative idea. Poet and performance artist Todd Shalom, then 33, returned to New York from living abroad and wanted to continue to have the feeling of travel while back in his hometown. Drawing upon the community of artists and thinkers he inhabits in New York and around the world, he started Elastic City to present conceptual walks that make audiences active participants in a poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. The organization, now entering its third season, has already surpassed Shalom’s dream. Over 30 artists thus far have led walks, not only in New York, but also in Detroit, Buenos Aires, London, Reykjavik and Sao Paulo. Upcoming walks are planned for San Francisco, Berlin and Paris.

The new season, which runs April to October 2012, features walks from American and international artists, both emerging and established. These include: Adam Weinert; Andrés Andréani (Argentina); Andrew Mount; Ben Weber; Eileen Myles; Felipe Meres (Brazil); J. Morrison; Jon Cotner; Josely Carvalho (Brazil); LoVid (Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus); Lynn Marie Kirby & Alexis Petty; Maria Chavez; Matthew Radune; Meredith Ramirez Talusan; Michelle Boulé; Miguel Gutierrez; Nancy Nowacek; Neil Goldberg; Niegel Smith; Office of Recuperative Strategies (Christian Hawkey & Rachel Levitsky); Pratt Institute students; Robert Mauksch; Sarah Owens; Todd Shalom; Tomaz Hipólito (Portugal); Xavier Acarin (Spain).

Some highlights include internationally acclaimed dance artist Miguel Gutierrez’s unique “Sensewalks,” which plan to awaken, explore and illuminate the senses through movement-based techniques. He will lead participants through such locales as the High Line, the New York Public Library, the Staten Island Ferry and Prospect Park. “Stories the City Tells Itself” is a walk through the lens of video artist Neil Goldberg that will capture everyday passenger behavior in NYC subways. Using their brand new reality-warping GPS-based smartphone app, iParade, LoVid will trace the path of Alexander Hamilton’s oft-moved house in Hamilton Heights (Harlem).

What follows is a listing of walks offered from April through June.

ELASTIC CITY WALKS, SPRING 2012

“Moss Me” by Tomaz Hipólito
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/moss-me

In "Moss Me," Tomaz Hipólito presents participants with a recipe for a green intervention amidst Manhattan's dense urban landscape. Drawing on Tomaz' background in architecture and his current practice in visual art, the group will identify and evaluate abandoned objects to paint, then use a homemade mixture of moss and yogurt to coat the objects. Individually and in groups, participants will paint these objects, re-engaging the street's detritus.

This walk holds eight people and is presented in partnership with Residency Unlimited and Le Petit Versailles (a program of Allied Productions, Inc). “Moss Me” will be held in English, but Tomaz also speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

Dates/Times
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6:30pm
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 6:30pm    
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 6:30pm

Walk Starting Point
346 East Houston St. in Manhattan. "Moss Me" meets outside Le Petit Versailles public garden.

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

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“Stories the City Tells Itself” by Neil Goldberg
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/stories-city-tells-itself

On this walk, video artist Neil Goldberg invites participants to experience the observational processes behind his work in real time. The group will traverse a section of the subway with attention directed to details of the underground environment and nuances of passenger behavior that might otherwise go unnoticed. Goldberg will share his poetic approaches to seeing, refined over 20 years of creating art in New York. This walk holds 15 people and will end inside the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition of Goldberg's work.

This walk is presented in partnership with The Museum of the City of New York. There will be no walk-ups for this walk; prepayment is required.

Dates/Times
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 3:00pm
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 3:00pm

Walk Starting Point
The meeting location will be in the Lower East Side and disclosed upon registration.

Duration
2 hours

Admission
$25 for non-members; $20 for Museum members, seniors and students

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Sensewalks by Miguel Gutierrez

Each walk holds 16 people. All abilities welcome.

Sensewalk #1: “EVERYTHING IS NEW”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-1-everything-new

For the first of the four Sensewalks, participants will gather in Prospect Park to investigate the five basic senses—hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching—teasing their particular properties apart through anatomical and experiential exercises and then watching how they interact, compete, rise and fall to construct a magical and wondrous reality. Miguel will then lead these new bodies on a trip through the Prospect Park Greenmarket. Be ready to roll in the grass.

Date/Time
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 12:00pm

Walk Starting Point
Please meet at the big arch (Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch) at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.

Duration
100 minutes

Admission
$20

Sensewalk #2: “MOVE ME BABY”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-2-move-me-baby

Get ready to speed up, slow down, get on your feet and then fall off balance. In the second Sensewalk, Miguel Gutierrez will lead participants in playing with the different components of the movement senses so that every place becomes a potential context for physical adventure. The group will be moved across the water via the Staten Island Ferry where they’ll take their sea legs for a spin.

Date/Time
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:30pm

Walk Starting Point
Broadway and Beaver Street in Manhattan, in front of the HSBC bank. Please wear something comfortable that won’t constrain your high kicks!

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

Sensewalk #3: “SPACE IS THE PLACE”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-3-space-place

In the third Sensewalk, we'll go in to go out—way out. Participants will enter the hallowed halls of the New York Public Library to travel into the senses of space and time. Using the simplest of actions – walking, standing, sitting, lying down – the group will find out how our bodies register the poetics of the environment and observe how a seemingly stable environment becomes an arena for change and possibility.

Date/Time
Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 1:00pm

Walk Starting Point
Meet at the bottom of the front steps of the New York Public Library (the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street in Manhattan.

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

Sensewalk #4: “GIVE ME SOMEBODY TO SHOW”
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/sensewalk-4-give-me-somebody-show

In the fourth and final Sensewalk, participants will take flight on to the High Line to explore an exciting and interconnected array of senses that relate to play, composition, and performance. Using the context of one of the most popular destinations in NYC as a playground, studio and stage, participants will find out how to unleash the art and performance makers inside us, as the group traipses along the slippery lines between participant and observer. Have no fear!

Date/Time
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 6:30pm

Walk Starting Point
Northwest corner of Gansevoort St. and Washington St. in Manhattan

Duration
90 minutes

Admission
$20

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“Unchanged When Exhumed” by LoVid
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/unchanged-when-exhumed

Building upon their work that renews appreciation of the physical environment through a digital lens, LoVid, along with guest performers and their newly developed smartphone application, iParade 2, will lead "Unchanged When Exhumed." Participants will travel the route of Hamilton Grange’s historical move around Harlem. Using locative video that transforms one's surroundings into a virtual set, participants may graze with a hungry tree, safari in jungles between residential homes and the street, and climb hills to uncover an emerald treasure. This walk holds 15 people.

Directed, written, filmed, and produced by LoVid

App development by Sean Montgomery

Soundtrack by Maria Chavez

Theme song by Dan Friel

With appearances by: Juan Pazmino, Pauline Decarmo, Yoni Weiss, Silvia Angulo, Gregory Sheppard, Irene Moon, and Vera Beato Smith

"Unchanged When Exhumed" is made possible with support from DiAP NY City College, Experimental TV Center Finishing Funds, NYSCA, rhizome.org, Franklin Furnace Fund, and Elastic City.

Dates/Times
Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 4:00pm
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 6:00pm

Walk Starting Point
1619 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, outside of Cafe One. Participants should arrive to the walk with a fully charged smartphone (iPhone or Android) and be prepared to download a free App. Headphones are optional.

Duration
1 hour

Admission
Free

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“Necessity” by Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/necessity

This walk is what you need it to be. We're all in this together.

"Necessity" holds 6 people.

This walk will be held in English but the artists also speak Spanish.

Date/Time
Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 4:00pm

Walk Starting Point
29 Union Square West in Manhattan, in front of "Coffee Shop"

Duration
Unknown. (Since the duration is unknown, please plan accordingly.)

Admission
$20

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“Superfun/d Speed Date” by Ben Weber
http://www.elastic-city.org/walks/superfund-speed-date

Hi. My name is Ben. I'm a Capricorn and my spirit animal is a moose.

They say this is the year when everything changes. The sun will flare, the poles will crumble, and the heart of the galaxy will align with the center of the Earth. As humans, we're the shepherds of this cosmic transition. Personally, I'd like to convene with the Mayan ancients as much as the next guy, but it's tough forging meaningful connections in the sweaty New York City summertime.

Let me take you to a tangle of art & industry in LIC, where we'll prepare for this new cycle using techniques from applied theater. We'll peek into a poisoned creek and sculpt our bodies into the baggage we wish to leave behind as we enter the World of the 5th Sun from world of the 7 train.

This walk holds 8 people.


Dates/Times
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 7:00pm
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 7:00pm

Walk Starting Point
46th Ave and Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City, Queens in front of LIC Bar.

Duration
2 hours

Admission
$20


About Elastic City

Todd Shalom, a New York native, devised Elastic City while traveling in Peru and founded the organization in 2010. Having worked in a variety of artistic genres (poetry, sound and performance), he decided to expand upon his existing repertoire of sensory-based walks and commission other artists to lead walks in their own disciplines. Elastic City walks explore various planes of human sensory and aesthetic experience, such as dance, architecture, poetry, sound art, the paranormal and ritualistic performance.

Elastic City is now in its third season of presenting conceptual and poetic walks by artists throughout and outside of New York. With this season, over 50 artists will have led walks.

Elastic City has partnered with numerous organizations to co-present its walks, including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Flea, Le Petit Versailles, Museum of the City of New York, NY Art Book Fair, Open House NY, Pratt Institute, Residency Unlimited, Wave Hill and Urban Design Week.

In 2012, Elastic City will launch its educational program, beginning with a series of “ways.” Whereas a walk offers the opportunity to participate in a narrative series of poetic moments, "ways" are experiential workshops that explicitly engage participants in *how* to generate these moments through exercises, tools and techniques offered by Elastic City artists. In a "way," participants gather in an intimate group to prompt exchange, tone the gut and sharpen poetic decision-making. Elastic City ways typically do not involve walking and are offered outdoors unless otherwise noted.

Each walk & way lasts approximately 75-120 minutes and costs $20 on average.

Payment for walks & ways can be made on-site or via the Elastic City website at: http://www.elastic-city.org

Elastic City is a non-profit organization awaiting 501c3 status and is currently fiscally sponsored by Flux Factory.

(www.contraposedance.com)

Massachusetts Dance Festival (http:www.massdancefestival) is again creating dances across the state in 2012, on June 23rd and 24th @ Boston University Dance Theatre, 915 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, and again September 22nd and 23rd, at UMass Amherst  Bowker Auditorium, Amherst, MA, 01003. 

Saturday evenings @ 8:00 pm MDF presents 12 professional companies based in Massachusetts, for a multi-cultural, multi-genre sensory spectacular!  Sunday afternoons @ 4:00 pm present 12 emergent dance companies, also showcasing the widest variety of high level entertainment from youth groups across the state.  Admission: $25 Sat nites, $15 Sun afternoons, with BDA, senior and youth discounts.  All tickets are $5 off when ordered in advance, online.

Our Mission:

Massachusetts Dance Festival believes that dance, as a major component of arts and culture, is essential to meaningful lives and healthy communities.

Dance and arts education contribute to quality life in the 21st Century by providing rich education for youth and promoting cultural understanding and tolerance, within diverse communities.

MDF offers annual statewide education workshops and performances that are inclusive of all dance genres.  Our festivals provide opportunities for professional and emergent dancers and choreographers, while inspiring community-wide involvement.

MDF seeks to raise the profile of dance as a profession in Massachusetts, as a means to stimulate social and cultural development across our state.

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Help us create enlivened communities! Call today: (781) 6086084; (508) 429-7577

AffeXity Phase 02 Lighthouse Videos 01-06

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE3EDD5CC8B475AA8 
Spring 2012 Artist in Residence @ MEDEA - Jeannette Ginslov
Research for AffeXity
For more details see: www.affexity.org
Funded by Danish Arts Council

Videos Shot & Edited by Jeannette Ginslov
Performed by Susan Kozel
Video Produced by Walking Gusto Productions
Location Malmö Lighthouse, Malmö, Sewden
© AffeXity & Walking Gusto Productions 2012

LADADIGITAL 001

Facilitated by marlon Barrios Solano
Playlist/

CLOUD OF WORDS

Some references:
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
http://isbn.nu/9780143114949
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
http://isbn.nu/9781594202537

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CJ:

Digital strategy
What might a DS look like?
Speed/efficiency around what we already do
Audience data – more data, and how we might use it

What we do now, expanded:
Web
email
Facebook/twitter
You Tube channel
Digitizing Study Room/other content
Editing/authoring/making DVds

What’s completely new:
Integrated web/databases
UB website design
Study Room/other content online
Sharing Doc Bank content with curators online
Ebooks/other publishing
Wikipedia
Library of Performing Rights

Opportunities
Partnerships
Programmes
Funding (more staff, equipment)

Concerns
Staff time
Staff turnover/knowledge loss
Budgets
Copyright/permissions

LK
Given the Agency's remit, activities and ambitions what are the ways we should be thinking about digital technology (as a resource, as a platform, as a context etc), what possibilities does the future hold for us, and how can we best implement/integrate these thinkings/aspirations into our work given our limited resources of time, people and money?

References pre workshop:
THE ART OF WATCHING DATABASES
INTRODUCTION
TO THE VIDEO VORTEX READER
GEERT LOVINK
Introduction to responses to You Tube
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78269995/Video-Vortex-Reader-Responses-to-YouTube?in_collection=3435881#page=6

The machine os us (cool video on Web 2.0 changes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Shared Culture (intro video about new licenses for digital age)
http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture

Open education movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_OpenCourseWare
http://whyopenedmatters.org/

Tactical Media and the politics of the archive (from tactical media frame but relevant for us)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78272901/The-Tactics-of-Occupation-From-Tompkins-Square-to-Tahrir#page=25

Mateo Feijoo insta a los países Latinoamericanos a fijar su propia agenda de temas de interés tendiendo en perspectiva y tratando de huir de los errores europeos. Cree en la necesidad de establecer un nuevo código de relación entre artista y estructura y apuesta por MOV-S como curador.

Entrevista completa aquí.

Patricia Picazo Sanz es asistente técnico a la dirección en el Centro Cultural de España en Malabo (Guinea Ecuatorial). Nos habla sobre cómo cree que ha de ser esta cuarta edición del Espacio para el Intercambio Internacional de Danza y Artes del Movimiento MOV-S.

¿Qué preguntas/temas propones para el debate en MOV-S 2012 si queremos hablar de futuro y de otras formas de operar en danza?

• Las danzas afrodescendientes en Iberoamérica y España.
• Las fronteras entre el teatro y la danza en África. Más allá de los tópicos africanos.
• La danza “en español” en África: Guinea Ecuatorial.
• La danza como factor de desarrollo.
• Itinerarios escénicos: Proyectos en red, creación en red.
• El hip hop, danza urbana ¿global? ¿lenguaje común?
• Seguir investigando en las piezas audiovisuales dentro de la danza, la posibilidad de diálogo con ellas.

Teniendo en cuenta que MOV-S se plantea como un proceso y no como un evento, ¿cómo crees que se debería dar continuidad al trabajo? ¿De qué manera propones seguir avanzando sobre los acuerdos? y proyectos que surjan durante el proceso y durante el propio encuentro?

Propondría talleres que lleven a creaciones en red, pequeños proyectos que cada participante pueda llevar a su realidad y continuar allí para un montaje final.

Sin duda crear una red entre las diferentes instituciones/profesionales interesadas en crear un proyecto común.

¿Cómo propones trabajar durante el evento? ¿Qué tipo de actividades/metodologías consideras que se deberían incluir en el programa? ¿Te gustaría proponer alguna dinámica en particular?

Talleres, charlas, mesas de debate.

Entrevista en pdf.

Since 2005, on one day, simultaneously around the world, dancers, students, cab drivers, artists, business folk and dreamers, young and old alike put aside their daily grind and unleash their moving creativity in parks, sidewalks, office buildings, schools, museums, subways, anywhere their dancing bodies will fit. Now in it’s eighth year, public art performance piece dance anywhere® will take place on Friday, March 30, 2012 at Noon pacific standard time (PST) 3pm EDT (New York, etc) 9pm in Paris, Rome, etc.

Artist and dance anywhere® creator Beth Fein explains, “When I first thought of dance anywhere® it was just an idea. Imagine if we all took a moment to dance. It changes your day, your mood… when you stop to dance, you find inspiration and creativity you may have forgotten. With tough economic times, and so much divisive discourse, here is common ground we can all enter, even if just for a moment - anyone can dance anywhere.”

At noon (PST) on March 30th, thousands of people in countries (including Estonia, Argentina, Italy, Turkey, Ireland) across the globe, will pause to express themselves through dance. Join us for another year of transforming public spaces and everyday relations into vehicles of inspiration. Anyone is encouraged to participate, and the project involves people of all ages, abilities, nationalities, and backgrounds. It is free for dancers and audience alike. Participants have been professional dancers and artists, plumbers, doctors, soccer players, teachers and politicians. Some dances are choreographed, some are improvised, and some stretch the definition of what dance is

Friday, 30 March, 2012

Starts at 12:00 PM

View the original article here.

Open call for CYNETART competition 2012

The international CYNETART competition is open to artists, designers and scientists who dedicate themselves in their artistic and reflective discussion; in particular, to interdisciplinary and hybrid approaches. The call for submissions accompanies the festival every two years since 1996. This competition represents some of Europe's most prestigious prizes in the field of media art.

The following prizes will be awarded:


I. Grant of the Arts Minister of Saxony: 10,000 EUR,

II. The artist-in-residence grant from the Arts Minister of Saxony 2013,awarded in cooperation with the Office of Cultural and Historic Preservation, City of Dresden: 10.200 EUR

III. CYNETART Prize, donated by HELLERAU(European Centre for the Arts): 5,000 EUR



The allocation of additional CYNETART-prices is intended.



CYNETART is an internationally renowned festival for digital culture, based in Dresden. The 16th edition of the festival will present a major exhibition of winning projects as well as selected competition entries, first-class performances and high profile/level music. The programme will include live sets of international electronic musicians and VJs at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and other emerging venues in Dresden. The next festival edition will take place from 15 to 21 November 2012 in Dresden, Germany.


Application deadline for the above prizes: 30 March 2012

For more information please check the website: http://t-m-a.de/cynetart/cfp-2012?lang=en

To participate, please send a signed submission form and documents by 30 March 2012 to:

[ Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. ]
[ CYNETART office ]
[ Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56 ]
[ 01109 Dresden ]
[ Germany ]

CYNETART Festival 2012: 15 to 21 November 2012 | at the Festspielhaus Hellerau | Dresden | Germany

El creador e investigador catalán Toni Cots, es el protagonista de esta nueva entrevista en la que se habla de los temas a tratar en el encuentro de MOV-S en Cádiz, la metodología de trabajo y su posible continuidad.

¿Qué preguntas/temas propones para el debate en MOV-S 2012 si queremos hablar de futuro y de otras formas de operar en danza?

Me interesa especialmente el tema de la movilidad, de los derechos culturales y el funcionamiento de las redes. Cuando me refiero a redes prefiero pensar en redes que vehiculen conocimiento y experiencia más que redes de carácter comunicativo y de producción/distribución.

Cómo elaborar un banco de información basado en artículos, reflexiones, presentaciones de investigaciones y procesos que posibilite tanto una difusión pública de carácter periódico (virtual) y al mismo tiempo sirva de espacio de intercambio, relación y diálogo entre los profesionales. Más que un archivo hablo de pensar en un contenedor generador de diferentes estratos de información. Quizás Teatron sea un ejemplo, pero pienso también en Sarma (contenedor de artículos críticos) o incluso Artea con su archivo de las artes escénicas. Pero a todos ellos les falta un dispositivo que se abra a un público interesado en la danza y sus propuestas.

Teniendo en cuenta que MOV-S se plantea como un proceso y no como un evento, ¿cómo crees que se debería dar continuidad al trabajo? ¿De qué manera propones seguir avanzando sobre los acuerdos y proyectos que surjan durante el proceso y durante el propio encuentro?

Creo que aparte de que surjan grupos de trabajo, la posibilidad de que se pueda generar una base de datos compartida como archivo que permita la publicación periódica de artículos críticos, metodologías de trabajo y sistemas de gestión sería un gran paso.

¿Cómo propones trabajar durante el evento? ¿Qué tipo de actividades/metodologías consideras que se deberían incluir en el programa? ¿Te gustaría proponer alguna dinámica en particular?

Mi interés actual es el trabajo entre teoría y práctica para generar herramientas de cara a la educación en danza y de la danza como instrumento/herramienta educativa, a partir de diferentes contextos. Otra cuestión que sigue siendo de primer orden es la movilidad y derechos culturales.

Entrevista en pdf.

Mariana Soares, responsable de relaciones internacionales y programación de Cena Cotemporânea - Festival Internacional de Teatro de Brasilia (Brasil), nos da sus ideas para el trabajo en MOV-S 2012.

¿Qué preguntas/temas propones para el debate en MOV-S si queremos hablar de futuro y de otras formas de operar en danza?

Dada las condiciones económicas y las nuevas organizaciones del trabajo, propongo que los temas de futuro tengan un especial enfoque hacia los procesos de trabajo colaborativos y en red que pueden fortalecer el sector y disminuir su dependencia de la institucionalidad. Herramientas de trabajo y comunicación, formación, financiación y creación partiendo de procesos colaborativos. También el tema de la cooperación y circulación artística más allá de las fronteras europeas (Latinoamérica, África, Asia) es un tema que tocaría discutir para el futuro y que interesa una buena parte de los gestores/creadores.

Teniendo en cuenta que MOV-S se plantea como un proceso y no como un evento, ¿cómo crees que se debería dar continuidad al trabajo? ¿De qué manera propones seguir avanzando sobre los acuerdos y proyectos que surjan durante el proceso y durante el propio encuentro?

Creando una plataforma continua donde quede claro los beneficios para la gente que haga parte: unos prácticos (convocatorias, oportunidades de colaboración) y otros políticos (contenidos y discusiones)… es cada vez más difícil mantener la gente conectada de manera sostenible. También el modelo “satélite” del IETM, que propone pequeños encuentros presenciales descentralizados con dinámicas y experiencias que después son llevadas a una esfera más amplia.

¿Cómo propones trabajar durante el evento? ¿Qué tipo de actividades/metodologías consideras que se deberían incluir en el programa? ¿Te gustaría proponer alguna dinámica en particular?

Mesas de trabajo con temáticas concretas e intercambio de experiencias/entrevistas son formatos que me gustan. Propongo espacio de experiencias entre artistas, capsulas de creación, de donde saquen alguna cosa juntos en pocas horas de proceso: ¿un manifiesto?, ¿un flamenco?, ¿un dibujo? como un ejercicio primario de dinámica creativa simbólica para concretar este término muchas veces intangible que se llama proceso colaborativo.

Entrevista en pdf.

William Forsythe interviewed by Thierry de Mey (2006)
About  the making and performing of One Flat Thing, Reproduced

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Indeterminacy & Improvisation in Performance & Environmental Practice

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Moving Into the Out There is iLAND’s fourth annual symposium on dance, movement, and the environment. The two-day event in the heart of New York City brings together dancers, choreographers, designers, ecologists, advocates, and scientists for interactive panel discussions, field workshops, and networking opportunities. This year’s symposium features an in-depth review of PARK, an environmental performance project at Fresh Kills Landfill supported by the 2011 iLAB Residency. Moving Into the Out There will also highlight iLAND’s recent efforts to synthesize insights and discoveries from the past seven years of iLAB collaborative residencies. Detailed event descriptions are attached.

Moving Into the Out There is an open forum for exploring new methods of understanding urban ecosystems through innovative collaborations between practitioners of movement, dance, science, and environmental management. iLAND cultivates a deeper engagement with urban environmental issues through its cross-disciplinary approach, and the annual symposium invites the general public to experience and explore recent works emerging from the iLAND community. Moving Into the Out There features the work of iLAND’s 2011 iLAB Residency, opening up the results of that collaborative experience to a wider audience for discussion.

Throughout the Symposium, participants share in the process of searching for shared language and collaborative processes that cut across the arts and sciences, focusing on dance and the body as primary mediators of experience, imagination, and knowing. Through Moving Into the Out There iLAND aims to generate conversation about collaborative practice throughout communities of art and science, instigating new ways of understanding and intervening in contemporary environmental problems – particularly those related to over-development and climate change.

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Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8:00pm until Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 11:00pm
The Universal Hall, Findhorn
Annual programme of film and video based around dance and the body.

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A unique insight into the work of this highly influential and award winning video dance artist.

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Desde Procura Aragón Iguazel Elhombre lanza tres conceptos clave para dar continuidad al trabajo en MOV-S: Red, roce y rasmia. También habla de los proyectos transmedia.

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 Jeannette Ginslov – Artist in Residence at Medea Spring 2012

As artist in residence at Medea this Spring, Jeannette Ginslov will be researching and developing her ideas on “capturing affect with a handful of techne” within the framework of the AffeXity project. See the AffeXity blog for regular updates: affexity.org

Together with a team of researchers and students, Ginslov will be exploring and striving for a number things:

developing the technical requirements and skills for capturing affective choreographies embedded in cityscapes, using video, the web browser Argon and mobile networked hand held devices.

amplifying and exploring affect through dance embedded within city locations, examining “patterns of relations between people, technologies, and architectures…ebbs and flows of affect…created and sensed by bodies in motion” (Susan Kozel).

exploring a phenomenological and collaborative approach to the choreography, the capture and reception of this interdisciplinary art form.

researching altermodernism, “the internet of things” and what art critic Nicolas Bourriaud’s calls a “relational aesthetics” or intersubjective encounters, where spectators are invited, even challenged to engage with a “participatory art work in which meaning is elaborated collectively rather than in the privatized space of individual consumption.” (Claire Bishop: Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, 2004).

subverting the commercial use of augmented reality usually associated with QR codes and downloads, by focusing on the notion of affect and dance embedded in cityscapes: a more artistic endeavor.

democratizing the use of, networking and sharing the research and technology with other screendance practitioners or interdisciplinary artists at conferences and seminars.

Partnering with Georgia Tech, BTH and masters students
This will be phase two of the collaborative project AffeXity, with Susan Kozel (Medea), Jay Bolter (Professor of Media and Technology, Mixed Environments Lab at Georgia Tech, US), Maria Engberg (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Georgia Tech, US), Timo Engelhardt (Masters student Malmö University Computer Science Department: Media Software Design), Nachiketas Ramanujam and Sanika Mokashi (Students at Georgia Tech USA), Wubkje Kuindersma and Niya Lulcheva (Dance artists, DK).

Phase two of the AffeXity project
AffeXity is a two year long research project. The first phase of research was conducted during my residency at the Laboratorium, Dansehallerne Copenhagen in November 2011. As yet we have no idea how many phases there will be. However in its final phase we wish to see the project becoming a “social choreography”. Anyone will be invited to shoot and upload short screendance videos, using their “body in city” as a location of affect, archive their material onto a social media dance and technology platform and finally use Argon to facilitate a “performance” in their own city. These should reflect our premier of AffeXity in Malmö, November 2012.

Research making use of many technologies and devices
My focus of research for this residency, funded by the Danish Arts Council, is to explore the dialectical relationships between technologies, human and non-human or affect and techne. The project and research makes extensive use of many technologies, technological terms and devices. It involves screendance, HD video cameras (HandyCams, Go Pro, Panoramas), green-screen shoots, QR codes, iPads, iPhones, the web browsers Argon, chroma keying, GPS, KML, HTML, Java Scripting, FCP… plus a whole team of researchers and developers with the aim of capturing and amplifying the notion of affect within a city location.

The process however starts with a performative action, a dancer, exploring a visceral negotiation or affordance within a city location, the dancer teasing out through movement, the presence of affect: a liminality, an emotion, a kinesthetics, a shimmer, the carnal, the sensorial, the visceral or subtle subjective memory, presence or vibration of a location.

How do you hold a handful of techne?
My questions and research lie in the translation of this onto the timeline and mobile devices and finally into the moment of reception by the spectator. My questions will be: Is there a gap between the affect and the techne? How does one negotiate that space? What is that space between the body and the techne? Is there one? How does one hold a handful of techne (the actual plastic, glass, metal, object as well as all the technical know-how behind these technologies and coding) and then capture affect? How does one elicit affect from the dancer relating to the location, or the viewer participating in the event? What happens between the lenses, the lens of the camera and the lens of the viewer? Since I regard the camera lens as an extension of my eye and my movement centre, am I able to connect to my visceral technology with that of the dancer’s and the camera and finally into the viewer? How do I know when it is “there”? Is there a sense of intersubjectivity, during the capture of affect and then later during the performance of AffeXity? Is this carried through by an awareness of form and content, affect and techne working “hand in hand”?

Read more about Jeannette Ginslov’s previous work here.

Presently she works here:

My online work as co-ordinator in Dansehallerne Copenhagen can be seen here: 60secondsdance.dk, ScreenMoves

Online Video documentary maker for Danse Konsulenten & Dansens Hus and Independent Choroeographers

Online curating and producing for www.dance-tech.net, MoveStream and MoveStream Facilitations

Screendance works and previous stage works may also be seen on my You Tube Channel: Walking Gusto Productions and personal website http://jeannetteginslov.com

In the flesh, I teach Screendance (choreography, directing, camera and editing) at Skolen for Moderne Dans in Copenhagen and have taught internationally in South Africa, USA and Scotland. 

Image: Affect Brainstorm by Susan Kozel and Jeannette Ginslov 19.02.2012. Photo & Fx by Jeannette Ginslov

Related articles:
- Mobile social choreographies: Choreographic insight as a basis for artistic research into mobile technologies – article published in Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
- Medea’s residency program
- The AffeXity project