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This is my latest dance and video work in Wellington Railway Station with Fiona Baker in Real Life and Todd Cochrane aka Toddles Lightworker in Second Life, representing a further development in exploring the issue of Avatar Companionship. It is a...
This is my latest dance and video work in Wellington Railway Station with Fiona Baker in Real Life and Todd Cochrane aka Toddles Lightworker in Second Life, representing a further development in exploring the issue of Avatar Companionship. The tit...
In this study 'Remnants (Two)' I wanted to investigate the potential of this footage for a more circuitous dialogue. I also wanted to combine if I could, the concept of traces or residue left behind on surfaces, as evidence of our presence in the ...
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If we take the premise that inherent in the process of abstraction is a removal - of information, then this study represents an abstraction of 'Leaving'. This is the onward movement away from the present moment, the catalyst of the Roaming Body wh...
The aim in this dance movement is to move into and inhabit, through movement or activity which one would not normally expect to see or find, spaces which are on the edge or periphery of thoroughfares or our everyday involvement with the city. Inco...
I am investigating ways to maintain the sense of narrative in the duet while exploring a less linear structure in the composition of the pieces. In both I have fragmented the 'conversation' and begun to make this less literal. Dialogue, like movem...
- PSI#15 Zagreb 24-28 June 2009 on July 25, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm
- Topographies - Sites, Bodies and Technologies on July 25, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm
- intercreate.org/scanz New Plymouth, New Zealand Aotearoa 2009 on July 25, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm
"... the entanglements of beings in technoculture that work through reciprocal inductions to shape companion species."
Dr Donna Haraway, 2008, 'When Species Meet' University of Minnesota Press
Rollo Kohime and Arya Braveheart in Wellington Railwa...
Rollo Kohime waits in a bus shelter while in his mind`s eye, he watches Mike and Fiona meet, converse and depart in Wellington Railway Station. The engagement reflects disparate moods, converging and dislocated protoconversations ... I am seeking ...
AUT (NZ) Masters in dance and video. This study is again, in direct collaboration with the composer/musician, Mike Beever, based in Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. Mike composed the sounds specifically for this video footage, giving me a range of short burst...
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- FULL NAME
- Michael Charles John Baker
- Do you want this account to represent:
- individual human (me), organization of humans (us) many of you
- If you are an organization, what kind of organization?
- Company, Presenter, Producer, Education, Media
- Website:
- http://hoststranger.blogspot.com
- About Me (human):
- I live and work in Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. I am currrently a senior lecturer at NMIT in Nelson, on the Arts and Media Degree, tutoring in site-based and site-specific installation/performance/new media, art and design, 3D studies
I am in my final thesis year of my AUT Masters in Art and Design majoring in Dance and Video. Please go to my blogsite below for my research/practice
- Website:
- http://hoststranger.blogspot.com
- Where are you based?
- Nelson, New Zealand Aotearoa
- Languages that you would use in this network besides English:
- Kinesthetic/Visual/Somatic modes
- Areas of interest on performance and new media
- Principal areas of research practice over the past ten years have been realized through collaborative, interdisciplinary fields and the integration of progressive movement modes with digital multi-media, installation and dance/video performance. My current focus is on Contact Improvisation Dance modes within mixed-reality site-specific frames of reference, ie: Real Life and Second Life.com.
- How did you learn about dance-tech.net?
- I was referred by a friend, Isabel Valverde
- Environments and applications that you use the most for your projects
- Processing, mocap, Final Cut ( or any other video editing), camera work, dance forms, Second Life, web based platforms, other
- Which other:
- Traditional 2D, 3D, Installation media, Text
- How do you train yourself or your performers. How do you approach your embodied practices? what kind of technique do you use?
- Contact Improvisation Dance, Authentic Movement modes
Co-Director with my wife, Fiona Baker, of Coriolis Dance Company, Nelson, NZ Aotearoa,
I teach weekly classes of CI and Authentic Movement. My embodied practices are explored, developed and realized through Real Life scenarios on the street/in urban/wilderness environments and in Second Life.com environments
- How do you relate your work to the goal of this site? how would you like to participate?
- I am investigating Second Life.com as a medium through which to develop concepts of dual/blended reality - see my blogsite. I am interested in discourse surrounding dance/space/time-based work in dual-realites
- Any additional information about your self or your organization (your BIO or or the Mission of the organization you represent):
- Currently senior lecturer on the Degree in Arts and Media programme in the School of Arts and Media at NMIT, Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. Lecturing in Installation and Performance, Object Design, Drawing and Design. In the last ten years, Baker has danced and worked with: BodyCartography Project, (USA/NZ) Wilhemeena Gordon, (NZ) Nancy Stark-Smith, (USA) State-of-Flux Dance Co, (Mel/Aus) Martin Keogh (USA) Zjamal Xanitha (USA) Catherine Chappell - Touch Compass Dance Trust (NZ)
- Additional site
- http://hoststranger.blogspot.com; http://slenz.wordpress.com/; http://turbulence.org/
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SDHS 2009 Conference at Stanford University, California, USA 19 - 22 June
The 2009 conference of SDHS (Society of Dance History Scholars) Topographies, Site, Bodies, Technologies was held at Stanford University, California, USA this year.
I presented two papers: The first was an individual paper presentation delivered from my Second Life Wellington Railway Station - In the Company of Strangers - Negotiating the parameters of Indeterminacy; a study of the Roaming Body and Departure in Urban Spaces.
The second paper was entitled: The Human Analogue in Mixed-Reality. T… Continue
I presented two papers: The first was an individual paper presentation delivered from my Second Life Wellington Railway Station - In the Company of Strangers - Negotiating the parameters of Indeterminacy; a study of the Roaming Body and Departure in Urban Spaces.
The second paper was entitled: The Human Analogue in Mixed-Reality. T… Continue
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 3:00am —
Indeterminacy and the Roaming Body
At the end of 2008 I had the abstract for the following paper accepted for presentation at the intercreate.orgSCANZ Symposium, New Plymouth, NZ Aotearoa 7-8 February 2009.
SCANZ is now an annual fixture on the international map of practitioners in the Arts, Sciences and Literature, so I presented this paper to a diverse audience from Holland, Brazil, France, Germany, the UK, the USA, Australia and NZ Aotearoa. My presentation was comprised of my reading to the symposium audience at the Govett-B… Continue
SCANZ is now an annual fixture on the international map of practitioners in the Arts, Sciences and Literature, so I presented this paper to a diverse audience from Holland, Brazil, France, Germany, the UK, the USA, Australia and NZ Aotearoa. My presentation was comprised of my reading to the symposium audience at the Govett-B… Continue
Posted on February 14, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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II Seminário Economia da Dança: formalidade é tema polêmico
A questão da informalidade do fazer artístico foi uma das polêmicas do II Seminário Economia da Dança. Os debates sobre esse e outros assuntos seguem a partir de agora no blog. Saiba como participar.Obra de Hélio Oiticica inspira trabalho
Inspirado no trabalho Núcleos, de Hélio Oiticica, o espetáculo Nucleares será apresentado de quinta-feira a domingo (12 a 15/11) no Teatro de Dança, em São Paulo. A peça é encenada pela Cia. Mariana Muniz de Teatro e Dança.
Depois da minitemporada no…
Conheça os selecionados para o Rumos Dança na área de Videodança
O Instituto Itaú Cultural divulgou os selecionados na área de Videodança para o programa Rumos 2009/2010. Foram escolhidos cinco projetos dentre os 14 que haviam sido pré-selecionados em agosto (clique aqui para saber mais). Esse grupo foi escolhido após master class com…
Clowns e xadrez em trabalho na Sala Crisantempo
A J. Garcia Dança Contemporânea apresenta Um conto idiota de quinta-feira a sábado (12, 13 e 14/11) na Sala Crisantempo, em São Paulo. O espetáculo foi contemplado com o 6º edital do Programa de Fomento à Dança da Cidade de São…
Reunião discutirá políticas para a dança em São Paulo
Quinta-feira (12/11), profissionais e artistas da dança de São Paulo estão convocados para reunião que será realizada a partir das 16h, na Funarte/SP (Alameda Nothmann 1.058, Campos Elísios. Telefone: 11 3662-5177).
Na ocasião serão discutidos os seguintes temas: avaliação da Conferência Municipal…
Travel Opportunities: On the Move
We Make Money not Art
Links for 2009-11-11 [del.icio.us]
- bjartlab：V2people + Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | We need money not art
- Urban Screens
Since the first Urban Screens event in 2005 in Amsterdam, related international conferences have taken place in Manchester in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. The INC and the MediaLAB are proud to present a day-long program dedicated to current Urban Screens research and practice, in Trouw Amsterdam on 4 December 2009. The event will include a seminar with lectures by Urban Screens researchers and professionals, followed by the launch of the Urban Screens Reader, which is produced by the INC and the University of Melbourne.
Links for 2009-11-10 [del.icio.us]
- How Waterstone's killed bookselling | Books | The Guardian
"The emphasis given to the few is staggering," says Mark Le Fanu, general secretary of the Society of Authors. "It's our mid-list authors, who may not write the most commercial books but who often write the best, who are suffering. The big corporate publishers dominate the shelves and squeeze out smaller publishers." - Notes on an art crisis | Art and design | The Guardian
This recession will bring a sea change in the way we look at, write about, and make art. Adrian Searle reveals what he's looking forward to - Middle class shoplifters help themselves - Telegraph
Middle class shoplifters are stealing luxury items like iPods, cosmetics and even fresh meat in an attempt to maintain their lifestyles in the face of the recession, according to a survey. - Revolution on paper: Mexican Prints 1910 - 1960 at the British Museum, review - Telegraph
An exhibition of prints at the British Museum reflects the social and political upheavals that gripped Mexico over the past century. Rating: * * * * - ordenador de frutas
Cómo es transformada nuestra idea de Naturaleza a partir de los procesos graduales de manipulación tecnológica? Cómo es alterada nuestra idea de Máquina cuando ésta comienza a emplear para su funcionamiento un sustrato orgánico? Dónde trazamos los límites entre lo natural y lo artificial? Tienen estos límites algún sentido? - Gabura: a terrifying vision of a world devastated by climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
In Gabura global warming is a bleak reality as villagers face rising sea levels, failed crops and devastating cyclones - Rhizome | Support Rhizome
Rhizome’s 2009 Community Campaign is now underway! The goal is to raise $35,000 by January 8th 2010, with 100% of all donations going towards their programs and new initiatives for artists this year. Now is the time to support Rhizome by making a contribution to help them achieve this essential annual goal. - Lalibre.be - Art/chitecture entre utopie et réalité
A Bordeaux, dans le cadre de la biennale Evento, les Entrepôts Lainés proposent une véritable contre-culture architecturale. - Sanaa Architect Named Director of Venice Architecture Biennial - ARTINFO.com
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been named director of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is the first woman to hold the position - Apostrophist corrects punctuation on street signs - Telegraph
Stefan Gatward, a 62-year-old accountant, has been called a vandal and graffiti artist after he corrected the punctuation on his street signs.
Art Review Videos
ArtReview Close Encounters: Frieze Projects 2009
Artists Stephanie Syjuco, Kim Coleman, Per-Oskar Leu and Ryan Gander speak with ArtReview about their projects for Frieze Art Fair. Interviews by Oliver Basciano and J.J. Charlesworth.ArtReview Close Encounters: Martin Creed
Oliver Basciano meets Martin Creed during rehearsals for his Ballet (Work No. 1020), at Sadler's Wells, London, 16–18 OctoberArtReview Close Encounters: LMCC LentSpace
ArtReview's Tyler Coburn tours the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's temporary park/art installation, LentSpace, and interviews curator Adam Kleinman and artist Olivier BabinArtReview Close Encounters: Athanasios Argianas
Oliver Basciano speaks with artist Athanasios Argianas on the occasion of his exhibition Until Full Stops Look Like Stars, From Where You Stand, at Max Wigram Gallery, London, through 31 October.ArtReview Close Encounters: The Jarman Award
ArtReview's Laura Allsop attends the Jarman Award ceremony, held at London's Whitechapel Gallery on 22 September, and interviews artist Lindsay Seers, who won for her film installations Extramission 6 and It Has to Be This Way (both 2009)IETM International Network for the Performing Arts
invitation to Culture|Futures from 7 to 9 December in Copenhagen
Culture|Futures is an international collaboration of organisations and individuals who are concerned with shaping and delivering a proactive cultural agenda to support the necessary transition towards an Ecological Age.Engendering Change: Strategies to Combat Gender Stereotypes and Promote Equal Opportunities for Performers in Europe
The new project led by EuroFIA will build on the foundations laid by the first one and will seek to identify clear strategic actions to engender change across the EU.Call for applications / Nomad Dance Academy / Education programme 2010
Nomad Dance Academy invites emerging creators from the field of contemporary dance and related professions, from around the world, to the nomadic dance-research-exchange-creative process.Recreating the Berlin wall with 33.000 people
British performance-artist und curator Martin Butler wants to rebuild the Berlin Wall – not out of steel, concrete and barbed wire, but with people.16è Rencontres du réseau Banlieues d'Europe
Banlieues d’Europe poursuit son travail de repérage de projets artistiques et de réflexion sur les alternatives culturelles, sociales, économiques… A l'heure de la crise économique, il est urgent de mettre en perspective des projets alternatifs dans les quartiers des villes, à l'aide de regards croisés d'artistes, d'habitants, de chercheurs, d'élus, d'urbanistes, d'économistes de différents horizons, repérés en France, en Belgique, en Allemagne, en Roumanie, en Grande-Bretagne, en Italie …© 2009 Created by marlon barrios solano/producer
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