ON NETWORKS, DANCING AND THE PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES OF EMBODIED COLLABORATION

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

by
MARLON BARRIOS SOLANO
dance-tech.net/ dance-tech TV/ dance-tech interviews
Friday March 27th 09
Lecture for Arts, Media and Engineering
Arizona State University

Barrios Solano introduces dance-tech.net and dance-techTV as a sustainable model of production and exchange of knowledge within a community of movement and mew media artits, theorists, technologists and organizations. The new internet or Web 2.0 architectures helps us to see Networks as the materialization of social dynamics, as sites of action, translocal presence and social innovation and sampling. They have become the most important emergent repositories of social and cognitive capital of a given community. dance-tech.net registers conversations, dialogues, performances, ideas and lives using the WWW as a site for a relational intervention on the boundaries of bodies, countries, disciplines and organizations.

TRACES:

BATESONQUESTION?
WHAT IS A HAND?

QUESTIONS
COMPOSITION/BODY/EMBODIMENT/COGNITION/REAL-TIME/SYSTEMS/DESIGN/INETERACTIONS/DISTRIBUTED/ECOLOGICAL/NETWORK

EMERGENCE

BOTTOM-UP

DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2.0
FROM A LIST SERV TO A SOCIAL NETWORK

DANCE-TECH.NET
FROM DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO DANCE TO MOVEMENT TO MOTION
INTERNATIONAL/TRANSLOCAL
TRANSDISCIPLINARY
GROUNDED ON THE DYNAMICS OF PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS:
KNOWLEDGE SHARING STRATEGIES/SHARING ALL RESOURCES.
COLLABORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND BARTERING:
INDIVIDUALS
VENUES
DTW, Eyebeam, Dance New Amsterdam, STEIM, Hellerau, THE WAAG)
HARDWARE: LEMURPLEX/MIDITRON
SOFTWARE: CYCLING74/ OPENFRAMEWOKS
TANGIBLE BENEFITS??

UNDER REPRESENTED GROUPS: RED SUDAMERICANA DE DANZA/
OPEN KNOWLEDGE


INNOVATION???
HOW WE IDENTIFY IT
SUPPORT IT
META-FRAME-IT

KNOWLEDGE BACKBONE/ENGAGEMENT:
MODELING SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION...YES YOU CAN...
DONATION SYSTEM
RELEVANCE DANCE IS RELEVANT
AS KNOWLEDGE AND AS A SUBJECT
ETHNOGRAPHY/ BOTTOM-UP

INTERVIEWS:
RESEARCH...
MARKERS


PROCESSPPROCESSPROCESS....

GIDEON OBARZANEK
IVANA MULLER
BEBE MILLER
LISA NELSON
ALVA NOE
IVANA MULLER
SUSAN KOZEL
ANDREW SCHNEIDER
JOSEPHINE DORADO
ANGELO VERMEULEN
SABINE SEYMOUR
TRISTAN PERICH

SYNDICATION/ VIRAL DISTRIBUTION


PARTICIPATORY CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE:
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
share know-how, the production effort and the product
loose network of correspondents
SAMPLING THE WAYS
INTERVIEWS/NEWS REPORTAGE

OPEN CLASSROOMS:
Wesleyan University (lectures and access)
University of Utah (skype talks)
dialogue with the community/experts and novices

SIBLING NETWORKSMETA-NETWORK

MOVIMIENTO.ORG (SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE)
DBM

PARTICIPATION MAKES THE SITE
DISTRIBUTED-UP
CONVERSATIONS/DIALOGUE
JUXTAPOSITION
REACTION/INTENSITIES/RHYTHMS/SPEED/FLEXIBILITY
EVERYTHING NEXT TO EVERYTHING

DANCE-TECHTV/ Mogulus platform
COLLABORATIVE BROADCASTING/LINEAR...BROADCASTING...VIDEO ON DEMAND
MAIN CHANNEL CURATED
LIVE:Turkey, London, Venezuela, Switzerland, NYC.
Content donated by more than forty artist: all continents
Academia and independent broadcasters
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS (any member of the networks)
AND NETWORK OF CHANNELS FOR LIVE BROADCASTING/LECTURES, PERFORMANCES, art projects (Movement Research Festival and Broadcasting station/workshops GRID LAB/Lebanon, France and Geneva)

Collaborative Creativity/Kaltura
Motionplex.org

Collaborative On-line video editing/In development Fall 2009
Collaborative creativity/in development



NEW WWW AFFORDS:
PRODUCTION OF SPACES FOR KNOWLEDGE GENERATION AND OPEN ACCESS
INTERVENTION OF THE INTERNET WITH KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS
LEAN FORWARD
CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT AS EXCHANGE
DIY
DIWO
RESEARCH WITHIN THE COMPANIES

COMMUNICATION IS NOT A BOND

THE BOND ID CREATED BY DOING IT TOGETHER



Planning for
COGNITIVE CAPITAL=
implementation real time communications, relational archiving of knowledge, possibilities of active engagement.
PLASTICITY/readiness for change and assimilation of experiences/learning
DISTRIBUTED
SELF-ORGANIZING

SOCIAL


COMMUNITIES=COMMONS=ECOLOGICAL



CONTESTING BOUNDARIES:
BODIES, DANCE, DISCIPLINES, MINDS, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, ORGANIZATIONS, COUNTRIES, MACHINES, LEARNING