7.3 Dance
Tracks
Track 3
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Plaza P7 |
Speaker
Dr Sarah Neville
University of South Australia
FP: Embodied and Enacted Futures as Artistic Practice
10:30 AM - 10:55 AMAbstract
This paper describes embodied and enacted futures as artistic practice as demonstrated through collaborative artistic projects discussed as a suit of immersive digital experiences - Spheres a Dance for Virtual Reality, Glasshouse Evocation and Transmittance. Each of these works are created through transdisciplinary collaboration across choreographic, sound and visual design, interactivity and game development combined through a distributed feminist artistic process. Embodied and enacted futures as artistic practice is informed by future studies, physical narratives and experiential design. These speculative future enactments are activated as immersive digital applications and embodied experiences. In each case the outcome of a futures driven process is a participatory work that evokes creativity and change for the participant through transformation.
Biography
Sarah Neville is an Independent Artist and Adjunct Research Fellow at UniSA Creative/ IVE. She was awarded an Arts SA Established Artist Fellowship in 2021 to create virtual reality dance work. Sarah was awarded a dual award PhD from both Deakin University and Coventry University in dance digitization in 2022. Recent work has been shown at ANAT’s SPECTRA, Siggraph Van-couver, 7th Motion and Computing Conference, MOD and The Illuminate Festival.
Dr Charlotte Gould
University of Brighton
FP: Hekateris Dance
10:55 AM - 11:20 AMAbstract
Hekateris Dance is an Augmented Reality installation, converging past and present, to envisage a distant future, threatened by the extinction of many species on the Earth which has been impacted by climate change. Hekateris Dance acts as a provocation to imagine what we are becoming in a posthuman world beyond anthropocentrism where, as Rosi Braidotti asserts, we are in a state of becoming through the convergence of technology and organic matter in a “zoe/geo/techno assemblage”. This aligns with Donna Haraway’s proposition that we need to work in collaboration with other non-human beings to survive on a damaged planet. On entering the gallery, the visitor scans a QR code revealing a life-sized three-dimensional hybrid being which is transported into the exhibition space using Augmented Reality (AR) and is viewable through a mobile phone. The avatar invites participation in the ritual of dance, using contemporary movements but in homage to the ancient Greek dance of the Hekateris, as a celebration of the natural world. This practice-based research project explores how AR can be utilised through playful interaction and storytelling as a discursive tool to prompt audiences to take action in order to be part of the change in achieving net zero.
Biography
Charlotte Gould is a senior academic at the University of Brighton, she teaches Visual Communication and supervises PhD students. Through her practice she explores the potential for interactive installations in digitally mediated public spaces, promoting public participation through shared experience, using urban screens and mobile phones. She has developed Extended Reality artworks to prompt play and interaction across social and cultural boundaries as well as interactive nonlinear narratives and speculative fiction which explore how we can communicate the threat of ecological crisis, raising public awareness to trigger change in behaviours. Through interactive installations she tests the boundaries of open systems, to offer opportunity for diverse audiences to co-create artworks, impacting on the way we engage in the urban environment and public space and contributing to a collective memory of place in a global context.
Miss Sharyne Lewis
Artist Participant
AwhiWorld- Artist Incubator Project
SP: Everywhen: Creative Technology & Dance Drawing Ecologies
11:20 AM - 11:35 AMAbstract
The interface between creative technology, dance performance, choreographic process, and place ecology is a rich area for research. In particular, the interplay between dance notation and digital drawing. This paper shares a personal exploration of the convergence between body, place, movement, choreography, and digital dance drawing as art and place ecologies. Where the inherent need to connect with nature and place coexists as the everywhen.
Biography
Multi-disciplinary artist Sharyne Lewis, (bailartheskies) has been exhibiting and performing since 1998. Lewis’s art practice is strongly influenced by her passion for dance, choreographic practice, drawing, and sculpture. Her work explores themes through a conceptual and allegorical lens, delving deeply to merge her two practices in fine arts and performing arts. She currently lives in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland, New Zealand.
Dr Denise Thwaites
Senior Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
SP: Curating Transdisciplinary Residencies: Time and Place for a ‘First Kiss’
11:35 AM - 11:50 AMAbstract
Artist residencies offer opportunities for creative interaction between different cultures, communities, and practitioners. Beyond providing time and space, hosts facilitate artists’ immersive social encounters with place, allowing them to explore unfamiliar processes of experimentation. Drawing on a case study of a robotics and arts-based residency, which birthed the choreographed robotic installation ‘First Kiss’, this short paper considers the complex rhythms of transdisciplinary collaboration; their awkward intimacies challenging seamless trajectories of innovation.
Biography
Denise Thwaites is a curator, writer and Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Canberra. Her transdisciplinary research (re)configures text and image to explore the imbrications of cultural, ecological and technological networks. Her work has been published in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus Literary Journal, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Culture Theory and Critique, Artlink and Derrida Today. Her creative research has also been presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne), Institute for Network Cultures (Amsterdam), Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Artspace, Firstdraft (all Sydney) and Next Wave Festival (Melbourne).
Associate Professor Damith Herath
University of Canberra
Co-presenter
Biography
Damith Herath is an Associate Professor in Robotics and Art at the University of Canberra. Damith is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and a roboticist with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary research teams on complex robotic integration and industrial and research projects for over two decades. He founded Australia’s first collaborative robotics startup in 2011 and was named one of Australia's most innovative young tech companies in 2014. Teams he led in 2015 and 2016 consecutively became finalists and, in 2016, a top-ten category winner in the coveted Amazon Robotics Challenge - an industry-focussed competition amongst the robotics research elite. In addition, Damith has chaired several international workshops on Robots and Art and is the lead editor of the book "Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis" - the first significant work to feature leading roboticists and artists together in the field of Robotic Art.
Session chair
Megan Beckwith
Lecturer In Dance (Digital And Screen Dance)
The University of Melbourne
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