Event overview
Sita Popat and Nicolas Salazar Sutil introduce a dancing robot, an electronic theatre & creativity engine, performing avatars and the question of materiality in virtual reality.
In this talk, Sita Popat and Nicolas Salazar Sutil address the creative exploration of movement as the material for digital interfaces and performances. They will give some examples from their past projects and discuss ideas & plans for current and future activities. Featured projects include a dancing robot, an electronic theatre and creativity engine, performing avatars and the question of materiality in virtual reality.
Sita Popat is Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds. Her research addresses relationships between bodies and digital media, using dance and performance as starting points to examine embodied experiences at human/technology interfaces. Her publications include Invisible Connections: Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities (Routledge, 2006) and Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance, co-edited with Nicolas Salazar Sutil (Palgrave 2015). She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Taylor & Francis) and a Trustee of DV8 Physical Theatre. In her spare time she plays a gnome healer in World of Warcraft.
Nicolas Salazar Sutil is a Chilean movement theorist and Laban trained practitioner. His work focuses on the intersection between human movement and formal language, movement and technology, movement and new materialism, and mobility studies and critical thinking. He has collaborated around the creation of sci-art, digital choreography and e-theatre with artists, computer scientists, scientists and mathematicians in the UK, US and Latin America. He is the author of the book Motion and Representation (MIT Press) and co-editor with Sita Popat of Digital Movement: Essays in Motion Technology and Performance.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 18 Nov 2015 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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