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Ashley Ferro-Murray
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Check out this 10 minute compilation video of my 2008 piece, "the blank." This video will be shown at Laura Cull's book launch this coming week. The book is a collection, "Deleuze and Performance" and looks incredibly interesting.
Everyone should check out -empyre- on "Critical Movement Practice" this month. Guests include Stamatia Portanova, Johannes Birringer, Laura Cull, Sarah Drury, Erin Manning, Nora Zuniga Shaw, Stelarc and myself. Click here to join in the discussion...
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UC Bekeley Graduate Program in Performance Studies. Original work from 5 easy artisits. Here is an excerpt from my piece.
I am thrilled to take some workshops with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at Berkeley summer. I have been wanting to play with an Arduino Lilypad for some time now and can't wait to get started!
I am curious if anyone knows of som...
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- FULL NAME
- Ashley Ferro-Murray
- Do you want this account to represent:
- individual human (me)
- If you are an organization, what kind of organization?
- University
- Website:
- http://ferromurray.net
- About Me (human):
- I'm a student in the MA/PhD in Performance Studies program at UC Berkeley. A recent graduate of Cornell I'm continuing to work on my own inquisitive and interdisciplinary new media choreographies as I also delve into the realm of theorizing my art with a mixture of practice, research and writing.
- Where are you based?
- Somewhere in, around, over, under and between Ithaca, NY and Berkeley, CA.
- Languages that you would use in this network besides English:
- French
- Areas of interest on performance and new media
- I'm interested in contemporary dance and interactive new media. I work with MAX/MSP and Jitter to facilitate interactions between dancers who wear sensors, live video feeds, dance forms data and video and sound output. I've worked with live video feed and accelerometer sensors, but I'm hoping to move in the direction of working in live motion capture labs as well as with proximity sensors. My aesthetic stems from a balletic historical consciousness, but dives in the direction of deconstruction, social commentary and movement perpetuated energy.
- How did you learn about dance-tech.net?
- culturebot and word of mouth!
- Environments and applications that you use the most for your projects
- maxmspjitter, Final Cut ( or any other video editing), camera work, dance forms, Second Life, Protools (other sound editing software), arduino (DYS sensor systems)
- How do you train yourself or your performers. How do you approach your embodied practices? what kind of technique do you use?
- I train myself by reading theory. French continental philosophy such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze. Thinking phenomenologically and globally I hope to use these sometimes creative thought trains to spark personal corporeal awareness, excitement and motivation. I watch the world around me and compare what I see to more historical texts, both traditional dance history texts and contemporary reformations of and commentaries on dance history. I also train myself by dancing. I dance as much as I can and in as many different situations and environments as possible. Travel around the world has a huge influence on my work -- both physical and virtual travel. For me, I am a dance scholar through my practical experience dancing and choreographing and am a choreographer via the knowledge and inspiration that I gain from being a dance scholar. I work to mold these two identities into one all inclusive artistic self. In learning for myself and teaching my performers I approach my embodied practice from an interdisciplinary, corporeal and theoretical standpoint. I then attempt to further explore these principles and my interactions with an audience and my surrounding culture with technology.
- How do you relate your work to the goal of this site? how would you like to participate?
- I hope to post videos and posts from my blog where I chronicle what I'm thinking about dance and theory as well as interesting dance-tech links that I find.
- Additional site
- twitter.com/aferromurray
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Check out this 10 minute compilation video of my 2008 piece, "the blank." This video will be shown at Laura Cull's book launch this coming week. The book is a collection, "Deleuze and Performance" and looks incredibly interes… Continue
Posted on June 13, 2009 at 6:54pm —
Critical Movement Practice on Empyre
Everyone should check out -empyre- on "Critical Movement Practice" this month. Guests include Stamatia Portanova, Johannes Birringer, Laura Cull, Sarah Drury, Erin Manning, Nora Zuniga Shaw, Stelarc and myself. Click here to join in the discussion!
Below is my introductory post:
Hello everyone! What an exciting opportunity to engage with this
topic, Critical Movement Practice in such… Continue
Below is my introductory post:
Hello everyone! What an exciting opportunity to engage with this
topic, Critical Movement Practice in such… Continue
Posted on May 5, 2009 at 1:46pm —
CNMAT Summer Workshops in Berkeley
I am thrilled to take some workshops with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at Berkeley summer. I have been wanting to play with an Arduino Lilypad for some time now and can't wait to get started!
I am curious if anyone knows of some good choreographies that engage this technology?
It seems like projects that work with these and similar technologies are often more focused on musical production. This is particularly clear in the fact that N… Continue
I am curious if anyone knows of some good choreographies that engage this technology?
It seems like projects that work with these and similar technologies are often more focused on musical production. This is particularly clear in the fact that N… Continue
Posted on April 10, 2009 at 3:39pm —
William Kentridge
I've been looking at William Kentridge's work a lot lately and had the opportunity to see an exhibit of his work at SFMoma yesterday. I was blown away by how intricately he treads the line between over stimulation and a delicate and subtle emotionality. His multi-media oeuvre also tends to include a great deal of choreography. Although the exhibition blurb coined Kentridge as someone who looks at painting, drawing, film etc, they didn't notice the implicit gesture toward choreography that accomp… Continue
Posted on March 15, 2009 at 10:57am —
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Thanks for the comment. Your work sounds great. Where were you when you met the S? I am also a east/west coast kind of girl, I am truly recognizing that I can't stay in one place for too long, it's good to have options. I am now on vacation on the central coast, then I continue this cross-continental experimental performance/rehearsal process of ID. What a year. How's Berkeley for studying performance?
We look forward to meeting you. Very curious to know more about what you do. Sorry our website is not more informative but it is in process of being updated. Is any of your work online?
If there is anything we can do to help in what I am assuming is your move to Berkeley just let me know.
Take care,
Sheldon
sheldon@smithwymore.org