Activity 1: Introduce yourself in questions, keywords and media objects…

[Rachel Boggia]

 

Welcome to meta-academy@HZT-Bates 2015: The Pattern that Connects!

In this lab, you will be collaborating closely with other participants to explore the ways that digital online tools can connect, perform, register, aggregate, map and visualize the knowledge articulated in your choreographic research. We will be responding to your particular practices and expertise as we build the course.   Let’s get to know one another well so that together, we can create an optimal network of ideas, media,tools, and practices.  What connects us?

Activity 1: Introduce yourself in questions, keywords and media objects…

Please complete by: Thursday September 3.  23:59 GMT.
Length of time you will need to complete the activity: at least 1 hour
Format: discussion thread

There are three steps to this activity. Please approach them playfully and honestly.

1. Reply to each of the questions we have posted in this discussion forum.  Here they are together:

• What are the questions that you are asking in your creative research?

• What are the connections that you see between choreography and networked spaces?

  • “Put simply the term networked space‘ accounts for all sites both physical and digital in which interactions occur. Its use highlights the need for social interactions to be contextualized holistically. A networked space is a site of converged narratives. “  -Jenny Kenedy http://www.academia.edu/487450/Conceptualizing_Social_Interactions_in_Networked_Spaces

• What was the last surprising/satisfying connection you made? (a very open-ended question)

2. Reply to each of the posts you made in step 1. In your replies, please do both of the following:

a. Cook down each question into keywords/tags.  These are single words that can serves as categories or labels for your question. Create as many as you can, try for at least 15 per question. Post them as a response to the  question they came from.  

b. Find media- images, videos, audio--or other links that relate to the question.  They can be your own images or ones you find in a search that Illustrate, expand, connect, juxtapose, explode, repeat, etc the question. In any event, choose media that really connect to something about your own practice. Post them as a response to the question they relate to.
You can choose to post links, to upload attachments, or to embed videos in the discussion.

TIP: To embed a video from youtube or vimeo, find it on youtube or vimeo and at the bottom of the video you will see a SHARE button, click the SHARE button, then choose EMBED.  You will see some code.  Copy and paste the code into your post and be sure that you use the HTML editor option.

3. Reply to someone else's post in any way that makes sense to you (using prose, tags, or media).

 

Have fun!

-Marlon Barrios Solano and Rachel Boggia

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

now fully aware...of the historical construction of the ideology...

All watched over by machines of loving grace from WHAT on Vimeo.

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

and this..

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

I am so into the GIF art...

it is brief...
Low brow...
I love the fact that now there are many GIF artists
is like a gesture...
imply looping...
repetition..
performance art/live is like GIF art...
what can we do with them?

the simplicity of an action:
Just some that have come to my radar...
They are also samples...

[Florence Freitag]

yes, the "simple" fact of repetition without accumulation and especially without any change.

and still, in a way, when thinking of virtuality and technology also, "simplicity is not the achievement of subtractions. It is a Synthesis of complexities", like a network, no?

another phenomenon of the gif-art, i never find them, when i'm looking for them, they just appear unexpectedly.

[Brandon Gonzalez]

Deep Dream Google

[Rachel Boggia]

Question 3: What was the last surprising/satisfying connection you made? (a very open-ended question)

[Amber Ortega]

Finding this group and having the time to actually participate.

[Amber Ortega]

joy

connecting

communication

relation-ship

participation

choices

researching

finding

searching

evolution

time

availability

openness

hopeful

[Amber Ortega]

[Brandon Gonzalez]

I really enjoyed seeing this video at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art. Bill Viola has made some powerful work. Greetings!

[Amber Ortega]

Greetings Brandon! Lovely to connect with you here.