Summer Dance and Technology '05 (SDAT05)

Arizona State University
Summer Dance and Technology '05 (SDAT05)
May 16 through May 27, 2005

Arizona State University's Department of Dance and the Digital Media and Instructional Technologies group are offering a two-week intensive workshop in new performance technology with a focus on creativity and live performance that will take place in the interactive stage space and technology classrooms at Arizona State University. The workshop will be led by internationally recognized artists and researchers Ellen Bromberg, John D. Mitchell and Yacov Sharir. Two morning seminars, described below, will run concurrently. An afternoon seminar and workshop will provide all participants with opportunities to put ideas and techniques from the morning seminars into practice through a collaborative creation process.

By exploring the use of interactive technologies in performative conditions we are seeking to discover how electronic environments and sensory devices affect the way we communicate, and how they can alter the mind, feelings, and the waking consciousness. Interactive systems are much more than merely wristwatches, or jewelry devices, eyeglasses, floor pads, and or motion tracking devices. They possess the full functionality and interactivity of a computer and a complete wireless communication system by being fully interactive. They are also inextricably intertwined with the wearer either when placed on the physical body, on the performance floor, or when functioning as a motion tracking device/system.

Mornings will be divided into two seminars, which will run for the duration of the workshop.

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