Virtual
Incarnations Exchange Programme Details
26-5-2002:
2.00pm - 6.30pm
Emergence in Performance and Artificial Life
Are universal scientific systems at work when we improvise
and devise in dance and performance making?
Emergence
happens when unexpected phenomena arise from the interaction
of simple components. Some scientists have wondered whether
'life' and 'consciousness' - clearly more than the sum of
their parts - are emergent properties. Dancers and researchers
into artificial life all create emergent forms. Improvising
performers often follow simple rules in their movements and
interactions; computer simulations of cellular automata (Conway's
'Game of Life') also grow and combine according to trivial
recipes. In both cases local interactions combine to produce
complex results that cannot be predicted in advance. This
workshop will explore the similarities between the two.
2-5pm
- An interdisciplinary open laboratory/workshop where the
public can observe and interact by suggesting low-level rules
and viewing the outcomes on computers and as performance.
ICA Scientist in Residence Daniel Glaser will work with artificial
life researchers and choreographer Jane Turner with performing
arts students from the University of North London.
5.30-6.30pm
- Performance as scientific research and science as performance:
an illustrated debate engaging with some of the questions
raised by this work.
Nash
Room
£5, £4, free with day membership
Company
In Space - C03
29 to 30-5-2002: 7.30pm
'the
best work of this kind I have seen. Both confrontingly and
thrilling entertaining' Dance Australia
The
ICA/shinkansen are proud to present the first London performances
by this ground breaking international dance-technology company.
CO3 is an extraordinary merging of live dance, animation,
live cinema, and electro acoustic music, this landmark work
turns the ICA into a dynamic mix of real and computer generated
stages.
Wearing
a motion-capture suit, a lone dancer's performance is captured
in real time. Startling 3D environments are projected around
her, inhabited by constantly mutating virtual characters.
Driven by the performer's movement data, these avatars embark
on a journey through abstract terrains, in a remarkable exploration
of body and identity.
ICA
Theatre
£9, £8, £7 ICA Members
Beverly
Hood - 'trans-locale'
3-5-2002: 7.30pm
trans-locale
explores the transitory nature of interaction and examines
the potential of movement as a physical and virtual activity.
The
work is an intervention of online video conferencing, a vast
and varied network of users connecting to conferences by conditions
such as themes, level of experience and membership. Within
this still relatively new technology, there are already certain
standards which have evolved, particularly in how users present
themselves, generally staring blankly at the computer screen.
In
stark contrast to this trans-locale throws into this virtual
environment perhaps one of the most inherently physical activities,
dance, and within that one of the most stereotypically passionate
and intimate of dances, the Tango.
The
work broadcasts two dancers from a live into the online video
conferencing environments. A computer programme will automate
the dancers movement around the Internet, connecting to a
conference for a set period before disconnecting and connecting
to the next.
trans-locale
was commissioned by New Media Scotland.
Theatre
£5, £4 concs, £3 ICA members
Network Exchange Day
4-5-2002: 3.00pm - 9.30pm
3.00pm - 5.30pm
A panel of digital producers and process directors will discuss
the integration of digital production into live performance,
exploring the practicalities of production, funding and sites
- commonalties will be found and information exchanges with
handy hints for all. Speakers include: Terry Braun [Braunarts];
Ruth Gibson; Andy Roshay & Kari O'Nions [Media Lab East];
Derek Richards.
7.30
- 9.30pm
As a stop gap between the Virtual Incarnation events which
are part of the Dance Umbrella festival, ICA and shinkansen
present an evening of informal presentations of new work and
discussions looking at issues to do with choreographers working
with digital technologies.
The
evening performances will be informal showing of work-in-progress
from Tom Sapsford, Virtual Incarnation commissioned choreographer,
Sheron Wray and Clare Russ. There will be the moderated opportunities
to ask all the choreographers questions about the work and
it's planned development.
Nash
Room, Theatre & New Media Centre
£6, £5 concs, £4 ICA members
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