Saturday, April 25, 2009

boDig (Istanbul)@Pixelist: Electronic Arts & Subcultures Festival


boDig is participating to Pixelist Festival with a workshop and performance extract.

29 April

16:00-20:00

santralistanbul E4-302


Workshop: Interactive Play with Movement

This is a movement workshop realized with specially written codes using MaxMSP/Jitter software. It is a design for perception suggestive of the redefinition of time and space. Based on the relations of the physical body with its processed images, the workshop is triggering improvisation and creativity by re-positioning the parameters of space, and transfers virtual movement to actual environment.


An interactive dance performance: The Knot Theory (an extract)

Knot: Is it a problem that needs to be solved? Or a connector that binds the torn? Can it be both?The only way to bind what only seems bonded in the surface is to cut even deeper. While “The Knot Theory” analyzes the surface and below the surface sides of incidents and relations, it is affected by the mathematical theory of Koningsberg’s Seven Bridges, a surgery, absurd theater, and the probabilities that interactive technologies create. When communication webs that consist of disconnected pieces are connected in different ways can they cause variant outcomes? “The Knot Theory” is a search with body language that goes deep in a well of possibilities.


This work has been developed at Absent Interfaces Lab in Tanzquartier Wien (Austria), artist residency at L’animal a l’esquena (Spain) and rehearsals at Performing Arts Track at Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkiye). It has been performed at garajistanbul during boDig 08 Festival and will be performed in May the 3rd 2009 at “Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Carthage” Tunis.


Credits:

Concept and Choreography: Beliz Demircioglu Cihandide (with Gunes Caglar)

Dramaturgy: Aylin Kalem

Sound & Interaction Design: Selcuk Artut

Interaction Design Control: Ahmet Guzererler

Surgery: Ercan Cihandide, M.D. and his team

Production: boDig


For more info:www.pixelist.cc

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Human Gait Research Project


Paris 8 Üniversitesi Mediadanse Direktörü Armando Menicacci, yürüyüş parametreleri üzerine bir proje geliştiriyor. Bu projede," baş-göğüs kafesi-leğen kemiği" hareketine bağlı olarak yürüyüşün hızlanması ve yavaşlaması analiz edilecek. Hızölçerler kullanılarak toplanan veri istatistiksel olarak incelenecek ve farklı yürüyüş grupları bulunduğu hipotezinin sağlaması yapılacak. Bu verilerin toplanabilmesi için 5 dakika vücudunda sensörlerle yürüyecek dansçı veya dansçı olmayan katılımcılarla birlikte çalışmak istiyoruz. (Katılımcıların isimleri saklı kalacaktır.) Yürüyüş üzerine bu deneyimiz 15-16 Nisan 2009 tarihlerinde santralistanbul'da E4-302 dans stüdyosunda gerçekleşecektir.Lütfen kayıt için nctosun@bilgi.edu.tr adresinden bizimle iletişime geçiniz.

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