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hallo Mike , good to hear you are getting on with the process (examining yourself), and questions are always good, if we get them. i wonder what you will be doing December 3-13, our lab ensemble will be in Japan to work further on ideas for SL and R…
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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 an…
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 sp…
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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 whic…
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. Incong…
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 movemen…
- 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 Railway…
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 he…
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 bursts…
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- Company, Presenter, Producer, Education, Media
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- About Me (human/individual)/interests, work..:
- 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?(city and Country)
- 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
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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 —
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 9:24pm on August 23, 2009,
Daniel Belton said… - Hi Mike, yes I remember you well. Thank you for your comments, and congratulations on the MA. Lovely to be in touch. Best
Daniel
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Programme de financement DUO - Robert Bosch Stiftung
Robert Bosch Stiftung lance pour la première fois cette année le programme de financement DUO à destination des institutions culturelles en France et en Allemagne.Call for applications - Artist-in-residence programme in Budapest
Research into the unknown – improvisational laboratory / 2010, is a residency programme in improvisation in dance and other artforms, and its relation to awareness and perception of performer and audience.Imaginative theatre and light Workshop
An imaginative theater and light workshop will tale place from January 14-17 2010. it will be led by Axel Tangerding, architect, director and artistic director at teh Meta Theater, München, Germany.Call for case studies contributions - Conference New Times New Models
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SPACE, which IETM is a partner of, is providing a mobile European training programme for professionals who are programming performing arts within festivals and/or venues and who want to deepen their knowledge and analyse and improve their recent and future work.© 2009 Created by marlon barrios solano/producer
