Video review of UNC-CH CHAT Festival

Submitted by mikenutt on Feb 22, 2010, 10:55 AM

This is a short montage of exhibitions from the 2010 CHAT Festival, held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from February 16-20.

Awesome series at MIT this spring!

Submitted by FionaB on Feb 18, 2010, 08:20 PM

How To Moonwalk (And Why)

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 16, 2009, 09:53 AM

Learning to Moonwalk means breaking one of our oldest, most familiar, and most reliable patterns. How to Walk. You have to break that pattern before you can even begin practicing a new one. Learning, unlearning, relearning. Relearning how to learn. A lot of life in the twenty-first century is like that.

The Interdisciplinary World of Dance and Interactive Technology (from Interactive Multimedia Technology)

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Aug 15, 2009, 02:22 PM

I've been blogging quite a bit, but have neglected my HASTAC blog.  Here is a "reblog" of a recent post that I thought HASTAC members might find interesting:

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Preserving: Merce Cunningham's digital "dance capsules"

Submitted by Anaventura on Aug 03, 2009, 02:48 PM

Merce Cunningham's death on July 26 and the sadness I felt when I read the news prompted me to bring to this forum once again the question of preservation.

Ruzena and Merce, and Holography Too

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 23, 2008, 05:43 AM
Ruzena Bajscy's visualization research team at University of California, Berkeley, has once again teamed with dancers to use holographic projections as part of a stunning performance that also raises deep questions about touch (the least studied of the senses), virtuality, absence, presence, and loss. This brilliant collaboration with Merce Cunningham and his dancers is given additional power by the long histories that this scientist and this choreographer/dancer bring to their colleaboration. Here is the lovely documentation: http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=18vmlsfb.8ilxcpx7&x=0&...

Being Born Into This World Itself Is a Great Talent

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jul 18, 2008, 09:52 AM

Last night I saw two performances by the amazing butoh dance group Dairakudakan at ADF. They foster a style called Tempu-Tenshiki which literally means "being born into the world itself is a great talent."

 

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Learning, the Arts and the Brain- Link to research article from the Dana Consortium

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Mar 20, 2008, 03:45 PM

How does learning art, music, or dance impact our cognitive abilities?  

Here is a reposting from my TechPsych blog:

I came across an interesting article

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