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This interactive artist talk/demo/workshop with choreographer, media artist and performer Kate Sicchio explores questions around different ways digital technologies can be used within a choreographic process. How can computational systems be used to help make a dance or even interrupt and hack a choreographic process? Can we make new dances with computers? To examine this premise two approaches will be demonstrated: computer programming as choreography and interactive wearable technologies.

Computer programming and choreography both rely on instructions and rules. By exploiting this idea, computer code becomes a way to choreograph, score and even perform a dance. A live coded score for the audience will be performed to highlight this way of working and making dances. Wearable technologies allow for unique interactions between the body and the computer. In this demo, we will see how haptic feedback (or vibrations on the body) can provide a dancer a choreographic score as well as create an opportunity for collaborations with choreographers, coders, or audience members.

About Sicchio's Residency:

Mount Holyoke College welcomes Kate Sicchio to campus March 9 and 10 for a series of interactive workshops, demonstrations, and student conversations. Sicchio is a choreographer, media artist, and performer whose work explores the interface between choreography and technology, utilizing wearable technology, live coding, and real-time video systems. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and she recently co-edited the book “Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology” (Routledge) with Dr. Camille Baker. She is Assistant Professor of Dance and Media Technology at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This program is sponsored by the Arts and Technology Initiative at Mount Holyoke College, in partnership with the college’s departments of Dance and Computer Science, the Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab, and Five College Dance.

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