Emergent Global Corporealities: Dance Technologies and Circulations of the Social
Convenors: Thomas F. DeFrantz, Professor (Visiting), Yale University,
2008-2010, Professor, Music and Theater Arts, MIT, Harmony Bench, Lecturer, Chapman University
In recent years, technological innovations have enabled the emergence of dance technology as an area of inquiry. Populated by artist-practitioners, technologists, and theorists, the emergent area encompasses performance, research and development of video game technologies, motion capture experimentation, and dance for the camera. As global marketplaces for these technologies expand, the area holds particular significance in terms of global circulations of the corporeal.
For some time, work in dance technologies has advanced without a recognizable critical dialogue in the United States. The World Performance Project at Yale, in collaboration with SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology in residence at MIT, will convene an international cohort of artists and scholars for a one-day meeting, "Emergent Global Corporealities: Dance Technologies and Circulations of the Social." In this event, we intend to tether artistic creation, comparative media theory, and emergent technologies to considerations of the social and corporeal. The meeting is scheduled for Sunday, October 18, 2009.
This small, targeted group of researchers will meet to reflect upon developments in the field, share creative engineering ambitions, and discuss current projects in motion. Each participant will present on their own work. The majority of the event will be comprised of brainstorming, raising questions, and discussing what might be key issues and concerns for this field of artistic and scholarly inquiry. We might also imagine future structures of exchange in this emerging area.
Continental Breakfast 9 – 9:30am
Welcome and Introductions 9:30 - 10am
Participant Presentations, Open to the Public 10am - 12pm
Yale Student Presentations, Open to the Public 12 – 12:30pm
Lunch 12:30 – 1:45pm
Afternoon Session, Not Open to the Public 2 - 5pm
Co-Sponsored by The World Performance Project at Yale, The Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis, and SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology
