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ISEA2010 RUHR Conference
P2 Motion Lab
Sat 21 August
12:30h–19:00h
PACT Studio 3, Essen
Convened by Scott deLahunta (nl)
Motion Lab is a framework for a public discussion of ideas related to performance, movements and media. Set in studio 3 of PACT, the Lab will feature specially invited guests and contributors who will present their papers and projects. Motion Lab will be facilitated by Scott deLahunta and Christopher Roman and will run thematically alongside and in association with the Synchronous Objects, reproduced installation located next door.
12:50h–13:35h | Chris Ziegler (de), Nathaniel Stern (us)
13:35h–14:20h | Norah Zuniga Shaw (us), Erin Manning (qc/ca)
14:20h–15:00h | Lunch
16:00h–16:45h | Christopher Salter, Marije Baalman (qc/ca), Martin Kusch (qc/ca)
16:45h–17:30h | Sofy Yuditskaya (us)
17:30h–18:00h | Break
18:00h–19:00h | Sarah Drury (us)
- Contributions:
- Chris Ziegler (de): Interfacing Dance Knowledge / DS|DM Installation
- Nathaniel Stern (us): Implicit Art (Artist Presentation)
- Norah Zuniga Shaw (us): Synchronous Objects and 'what else' with Erin Manning (qc/ca)
- Christopher Salter, Marije Baalman (qc/ca): SenseStage. Low Cost Open Source Wireless Sensor Infrastructure for Live Performance and Interactive Real Time Environments
- Martin Kusch, Marie-Claude Poulin (qc/ca): Passage. A Hybrid of Interactive Installation and Performance
- Sofy Yuditskaya, Valeria Maraco, Damian Frey (us): Perils of Obedience (qc/ca)
- Sarah Drury (us): The World-Producing Body
ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P2 Motion Lab (PDF, 251.05 KB)
Chris Ziegler (de)
Interfacing Dance Knowledge / DS|DM Installation
Double Skin | Double Mind Installation is an Awareness Preparation Tool for Dancers. This Installation is developed in the Research Project Inside Movement Knowledge by Bertha Bermudez (EG | PC) , Frederique Bevilaqua, Sarah Fdili Alaoui (IRCAM), Martin Bellardi and Christian Ziegler (ZKM Karlsruhe) at AHK Amsterdam.
ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Interfacing Dance Knowledge / DS|DM Installation (PDF)
Chris Ziegler is media artist in international collaborations on new media with the performing arts. Interactive film installations and performances are presented internationally. He is Associate Artist at ZKM Karlsruhe and researcher for Inside Movement Knowledge Project at AHK Amsterdam.
Nathaniel Stern (us/za)
Implicit Art (Artist Presentation)
How might the body's continuity, and its potential disruption, be attendant, provoked and contextualized in contemporary art? I'll discuss current research – e.g. Massumi, Hansen, Nancy - on relationality and embodiment alongside my: interactive installations, which ask people to move in ways they normally wouldn't; performative prints, produced by traversing the landscape with a desktop scanner; and public interventions, temporary architectural structures that move between hard and soft, virtual and actual, public and private. Here, the work is in unpacking, problematizing and making strange.
ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Implicit Art (PDF)
Nathaniel Stern is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He recently completed his Ph.D. on interactive art and embodiment at Trinity College Dublin, and is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
Norah Zuniga Shaw (us)
Synchronous Objects and what else with Erin Manning (qc/ca)
From dance to data to objects, Synchronous Objects (published on-line in April 2009: http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu) reveals the interlocking systems of organization in William Forsythe's ensemble dance One Flat Thing, reproduced (2000). Those systems were quantified through the collection of data and transformed into a series of objects – synchronous objects - that work in harmony to explore those choreographic structures, reveal their patterns, and reimagine 'what else' they might look like. In this Motion Lab exchange, Synchronous Objects co-creative director Norah Zuniga Shaw and philosopher Erin Manning will explore how the ideas in the project have circulated in the year since its launch and consider what philosophical enquiry might bring to bear on the topic of 'what else'.
Norah Zuniga Shaw's work centers on choreographic knowledge as a locus for interdisciplinary and intercultural creativity. She is currently presenting Synchronous Objects as part of a global tour produced by the Goethe Institute. She is director for dance & technology at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design.
Christopher Salter, Marije Baalman (qc/ca)
SenseStage. Low Cost Open Source Wireless Sensor Infrastructure for Live Performance and Interactive Real Time Environments
SenseStage is a new, open source wireless sensor network hardware and software infrastructure designed specifically for artists, designers and architects who are working in the arena of real time applications. The infrastructure consists of (1) a small, wireless sensor board that can be programmed based on the needs of its application and (2) an open source software environment that facilitates the creation and practice of collaborative interactive media art works, by making the sharing of data (from sensors or internal processes) between collaborators easier, faster, and more flexible.
Chris Salter is an artist, Associate Professor in fine arts, Concordia University and researcher at Hexagram, Montreal. Salter’s performances, installations and publications have been presented at numerous festivals and conferences around the world. He is the author of Entangled (MIT Press, 2010).
Marije Baalman is an artist and scientist. She studied Applied Physics in Delft and and completed her Ph.D. on Wave Field Synthesis at the TU Berlin. She works in the areas of real time audio and wireless sensor networks and performs and publishes internationally in artistic and scientific contexts.
Martin Kusch, Marie-Claude Poulin (qc/ca)
Passage. A Hybrid of Interactive Installation and Performance
This article analyses passage, a performance-installation project, created by kondition pluriel. It examines the work and the research problematic surrounding an artistic project, which is conceptualized towards the goal of creating a hybrid work oscillating between installation and performance. The text focuses on the creation process in this multidisciplinary project, the technological framework and the artistic and conceptual context. It describes the steps that had to be taken to develop the central element of this work: the socialization between performer and public.
Martin Kusch is a visual media artist and artistic co-director of kondition pluriel. He is teaching at the Dept. for Digital Arts at the Univ. of Applied Arts in Vienna. His artistic practice is based on the creation of media installations and interactive performance environments.
Marie-Claude Poulin is a choreographer and co-funder of kondition pluriel. Her work confronts the relationship between the body and technology in a very organic manner. Her choreographic language is made of multiple bodily states, showing the body in a perpetual process of reorganization.
Sofy Yuditskaya, Valeria Maraco, Damian Frey (us)
Perils of Obedience (qc/ca)
A performance in two acts wherein the authority of the spectacle justifies complicity between controlling viewer and puppet actor or embedded technologies display for your education and amusement hidden systems of social control.
ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Perils of Obedience (PDF)
Sofy Yuditskaya is an interdisciplinary artist. She is currently studying for her masters of Professional Studies at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at ITP, and researching educational game design at the Games for Learning Institute in New York City.
Valeria is a dancer and videographer who lives and works in Amsterdam. You can see her work at vimeo.
Damian works with sound, code, light, and electronics. He is interested in creating senses of space that transcend the immediate physical environment. His ideas come from a background that includes musicianship as an improvising electro-acoustic performer, software programming, and spatial design.
Sarah Drury (us)
The World-Producing Body
This paper explores performance projects that use sensed movement to control live media as an instance of non-binaristic embodiment, also considering the performance languages of this extended embodiment. I will look at the use of physical interfaces linked with media projection in the mutual production of identity and environment, drawing on the Bergsonian idea of the body as a perceptive interface that is also continuous with matter—produced by and producing the world. How does the experimental process of displaced physicality and image-building reflect this non-duality of body and world?
ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | The World-Producing Body (PDF)
Sarah Drury is a media artist working with interactive installation, interactive performance, and video. Her recent work uses collaborative processes and sensor-based live media to explore alternative embodiment, subjectivity and narrative. Her work has been shown widely at international venues.
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