Stage for Digital, Contagious, and Networked Bodies and Code++ (SFDCANBAC++)
- Dance & performance
60 min.
08.11.2024
Friday
19:30
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The performance is a series of practices, a “Petri dish”* in which form appears as in a laboratory environment, a series of temporal phenomena that question linearity. It is you as an audience member – an active spectator – who makes sense of the phenomena on stage, as if you were a scientist… Remember that it’s not about what you see – what you see are mirrors. “We are nothing but mirrors”.
At one point, there’s a participatory workshop, where live-coding is meant to reveal the ‘black box’ of the car. What would you ask the machine if you knew its purpose?
You are invited to become an actor who generates the images in real time, rendered on the video projector. No coding experience? No problem! With Copilot AI, as an artificial intelligence assistant, you write computer code without any prior knowledge.
The fragmented bodies on stage become contagious, modulating waveforms and interacting with various expressions of life (actors) in the space through vulnerability and computer code. This interaction emphasizes the concept of care, where the involvement of each participant nurtures a collective experience. The artificial intelligence assistant, Copilot AI, helps write the code, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute. The synergy between human vulnerability and technological support cultivates a space where creativity and caring (e)go, allowing participants to connect and transform the ever-changing physical-digital landscape together.
*Petri dishes = a place or situation where something can be tested, examined or encouraged to develop.
Artists: Jorge Guevara and Naoto Hieda
Sound: robrrr
Dramaturgical advisor: Dani Bershan
Technical Mentorship and development: Andreia Matos, William Primett and Nuno N. Correia
Biographies
Naoto Hieda (1990, Japan) is an artist based in Germany with Bachelor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan, 2012) and Master of Engineering from McGill University (Canada, 2015) and is graduating from Diplom II with distinction at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2023. They received danceWeb scholarship (Austria, 2016, mentored by Tino Sehgal), and are a former fellow of Pola Art Foundation (Japan, 2017), Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation (Japan, 2020) and the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Germany, 2022). Hieda’s artworks have been recently exhibited at Pola Museum Annex (Japan, 2022), Art Fair Tokyo (Japan, 2022), Festival de la Imagen (Colombia, 2022) and Digital Agora (Germany, 2023). As a collective with Jorge Guevara, “Best Practices in Contemporary Dance” (2020-) is a project fostering a queer form of conversation between technology and bodies, presented at IDOCDE (ImpulsTanz, Vienna, 2021), Temps d’Images (tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, 2022) and more.
https://naotohieda.com
Jorge Guevara – Colombian Choreographer, Multimedia & Interaction Designer based in Brussels. Bridging art & science, dance & technology, in artistic practice and doing academic research at http://motionbank.org/ – University of applied sciences Mainz (Project originally founded by choreographer William Forsythe). Guevara’s work proposes playgrounds where the body in time-space becomes a source of non-binary knowledge. They propose abstraction as a strategy to decolonize knowledge. A blurry gaze at the constant state of becoming. They create choreographies that linger at the threshold of exciting and forgetting where the body is a source of healing. Jorge’s work has been presented in New Media Art, ArtScience and Performing Arts festivals such as Ars Electronica, Documenta, Impulstanz, NODE Forum for Digital Arts, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS.
Links: https://jorgeguevara.myportfolio.com, https://designingart.eu/
Supported by
Ministry of Culture, Aerowaves, Creative Europe, Starea Naţiei, Odeon Theatre, Bucharest National Theatre, CINETic (UNATC), LINOTIP – Independent Choreographic Center, Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Goethe-Institute Bucharest, Cinema Union, Cărturești, 1000 de Chipuri, 5 to go
Main media partner
Radio Guerilla
Media partners
Adevărul, Agerpress, Elle, Happ.ro, Liternet, TVR Cultural, Radio România Cultural, Revista Arta, The Institute, Zile și nopți, Zeppelin, ISCOADA, Revista Golan, Feeder, Visit Bucharest, Ziarul Metropolis, Scena9, IQads, Ceașca de Cultură, Modernism.ro
Performance presented within MODINA. The Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA) project aims to expand the creative possibilities of contemporary dance performance and enhance the audience experience with digital technology – with a focus on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction, on-site and online. The project partners are 3 academic institutions and 5 dance centers from 6 countries.
The MODINA project is co-funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe program. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the funding authority can be held responsible for them.
