Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social v2.0

April 21-23, 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies
MIT Music and Theater Arts
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Dance Technology and Circulations of the Social, Version 2.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
April 21-23, 2011

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday (4/21):
6:30 Welcome and Introductions with finger food | Spontaneous Performances #1

MIT 21M.880 Dance Students
Nell Breyer
Ian WinterS

Friday (4/22):
8:30 Coffee

9:00-11:30 Panel #1: NETWORKED Pasts and Presents

• Johannes Birringer:  Performance Technologies and the Social   
• Marlon Barrios Solano:  Uncommon Trades:  Embodied and Distributed Knowledge in Social Networks
• Susan Kozel:  Social Networking:  Contra Choreography

11:45 Lunch

1:00-3:30 Panel #2:  Alien Anatomies and Space-times of Elsewhere

• Maria X (Maria Chatzichristodoulou):  Allergic to Utopias
• Jaime del Val: Metamedia Metaformance Metahuman Technologies: Undoing Anatomy in Capitalism of Affects
• Chris Salter: Alien Action/Alien Agency: Choreography, Technology, and Systems of Aliveness

4:00-6:30  Panel #3:  Finding New Dance Partners

• Melissa Blanco Borelli:  Partnering the Screen:  Music Videos, Choreography, and the Social
• Nick Montfort:  Why Watson Can’t Dance:  Attempts at On-Screen Dance in Popular Digital Media
• Harmony Bench:  Contagious Gestures:  Communicability in the Social Sphere

7:00 Dinner For Participants


Saturday (4/23):
8:30 Coffee

9:00-11:30    Panel #4: Somaticity, Intimacy, Embodiment

• Simon Ellis: Dancing with Myself (v2)
• Petra Kuppers: Screen Somatics: Dancing with Olimpia
• Jason Farman: Movement, Progress, and Obsolescence: The Production of Social Space in Locative Media



11:45 Lunch

1:00-3:30    Panel #5: Affective Residues, Social Values

• Thomas F. DeFrantz: AfroFuturist Remains
• Ian Condry: Social Media, Virtual Idols and Post 3/11 Japan: a Radical Wave Recontextualizing Value, Technology, and Action
• Maaike Bleeker: What if this were an Archive?

3:30 Break

4:00-6:00 Open Panel

7:00 Reception | Spontaneous Performances | DANCE PARTY


 

 

Part of the MIT 150th Festival of Art, Science, and Technology, this symposium will address questions of dance and technology with a wide range of presentations by an international cohort of researchers. In presentations and demonstrations, concepts of social media, emergent technology, embodiment and dance will be explored over two-and-a-half days April 21 – 23, 2011.  All events will be held at the MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor, 25 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, and are free and open to the public. Events begin with a reception Thursday evening April 21, and presentations on Friday and Saturday from 9am until 6pm.

The event gathers participants from the United States, the UK, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, each offering a broad range of approaches and articulations of dance technology.  Listing of Participants

 

Thursday Evening Presentations

 

Ian Winters - Memory Table
		Based on the ideas of memory/forgetting, the Memory Table records fragments of life at a simple café table and continually re-presents the present, the recent past and the far past in real time --  drawing participants into an ongoing dialogue and choreography with a cafe table's present and  past.
Nell Breyer - Artist Talk
“A Dance in Sol LeWitt’s “Bars of Color Within Squares (MIT)” is a performance project staged on LeWitt’s polychrome terrazzo floor completed for the atrium of MIT's Green Center for Physics in 2007. The performance examines rule systems manifest in group and individual behaviors, The live performance is being re-staged as part of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology. A multi channel video installation of the work is also being shown for the month of May at Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston. The video installation explores motion, color and depth perception through live processed and recorded video.
	Disappearing Woman by Nell Breyer, Alissa Cardone, Lorraine Chapmen & Bronwen MacArthur Video: Nell Breyer Performance Credits: Concept & Direction: Nell Breyer. Dramaturgy: Dejan Srhoj. Rehearsal Director:  Sarah Baumert. Choreographic Contributions: Nell Breyer, Sarah Baumert, Dejan Srhoj, Sarah Witt, Ricky Kuperman, Alissa Cardone. Performers: Sarah Baumert, Isidore Bethel, Nell Breyer, Alissa Cardone, Theodossios Issaias, Ricky Kuperman, Kate Ladenheim, Catherine Murcek, Dejan Srhoj,Torena Webb,  Sarah Witt. Special Thanks: MIT Department of Physics; List Visual Arts Center; MIT Office of The Arts; MIT150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology; John Lavertu, Janet Passehl  & The LeWitt Collection; Sofia LeWitt and The LeWitt Estate; Patricia Fuller; Boston Cyberarts Festival; Trust for Mutual Understanding & Jeremy Ziemann.
•Made possible (or Made possible in part) by the Grants Program of the Council for the Arts at MIT, The Trust For Mutual Understanding, Boston Cyberarts Festival and the MIT 150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology.