In the Short Notice Department: we’re presenting at the EChO Seminar tomorrow at Sadler’s Wells, talking about the Choreographic Language Agent, and Becoming. Details here.
Thinking with the Body
Sep 16, ’13
9:46 AM
The Wayne McGregor | Random Dance exhibit Thinking with the Body opens at the Wellcome Collection this week. The selection of exhibits includes a running installation of Becoming.
Added, 2013-09-16: there’s a promotional video on YouTube:
Becoming
Aug 29, ’13
3:50 PM
We’ve been working with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance and OpenEndedGroup on Becoming, an algorithmic “virtual dancer” that grows and evolves in response to emulated mechanical constraints and to a database of film material. The “dancer” is partially controlled by a responsive web-based front end built on Backbone.js, Hiccup, Clojure and ClojureScript. (The front-end code is available on GitHub.)
Becoming is currently being used in the studio in the making of Atomos, which premieres in October. Becoming will also be shown as part of the exhibit Thinking with the Body at the Wellcome Collection, opening September 19th.
Digital Futures in Dance Residency
Aug 5, ’11
8:05 PM
We’ve been awarded an artist’s residency at DanceDigital as part of the Digital Futures in Dance National Conference this September. Our mission is to bring the Choreographic Language Agent forward from its current workshopping phase into a state where Wayne McGregor can make use of it in the creation of his new work which premieres at Sadler’s Wells in December. We present the outcomes of the residency on September 9th.
There’s more information about the residency (and the other artists based at South East Dance and Dance South West) here.
(Photo: Jonah Bokaer.)
Moving and Making
Aug 1, ’11
9:54 PM
We recently participated in a workshop organised by the R-Research arm of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, teaching the Choreographic Language Agent software to the company. We are now back in software maintenance mode, applying some fixes and enhancements suggested by sessions with the company dancers. Our next period of residence with the company is at Dartington College at the end of August.