Hello
I agree with Kent that Carlos's project on interactive dance is valuable
and will help us all. Good luck, Carlos.
There should be links to online-published articles, and discussions on
our maillist, in our dtz archive, and it would be good if we had access
via links to other maillists who debate new media and technologies,
including the just founded Working Group on Interactive Systems and
Instrument Design in Music, which will have a connection to
dance*technology:
(http://www.notam.uio.no/icma/interactivesystems/wg.html).
I don't know of any books published on the subject, but some are in the
making, and Routledge will probably be cooking up some dry cuisine
sooner or
later.
Armando Menicacci and Emanuele Quinz are editing a book on performance
and technology that will first appear in Italy, and then in a new
version in France next year (by "Centre National de la Danse").
Nigel Stewart (UK) is developing/organising a book project on
performance, media and technologies that will include chapters on
interactive dance.
Sally R. Munt (Brighton, UK) is editing a book on NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND
SPATIAL PRACTICES, but it won't have a chapter on dance, I believe.
Valerie Briginshaw (Chichester, UK) is publishing a book on "Dance,
Space, and Subjectivity" with Macmillan (forthcoming).
Recent special issues on dance and technology in journals:
Performance Research: “On Line” (summer 1999)
Nouvelles de Danse: “Danse et Nouvelles Technologies” (fall/winter
1999).
and of course Kent de Spain's excellent essay on motion capture in
dance, just appeared:
“Dance and Technology: A Pas de Deux for Post-humans,” Dance Research
Journal 32:1 (summer 2000), 2-17.
You might also want to look at Eduardo Kac's "ASPECTS OF THE AESTHETICS
OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS," a very sharp essay on intermedia technologies
with a good grasp on the history.
Sita Popat, a member of our dtz community, has written a very rich
thesis on "choreography / interactivity," and together with Jeffrey
Gray Miller she has published online commentary on "Choreographing via
Videoconferencing" and their TouchTown project
(http://www.satorimedia.com/touchdown/)
Lisa Naugle has written a fine essay on "Building Choreographic
Structure In a Video Teleconferencing Environment" which she presented
at the
Dancing in the Millennium Conference in Washington.
See also Ralph Lemon's moving piece, "Mirrors and Smoke," which was
published in the online Dance Magazine Stern's Directory
(http://www.dancemagazine.com/)
There is an interactive website at the Wexner Art Center where my
"environments" laboratory has published ideas on dance/interactivity
after our last exhibition:
http://www.wexarts.org/thefold/practice/practiceframes.html
And next spring I will be editing a special issue on dance &
technology/interactivity for the DIGITAL ART AND NEW MEDIA issue of
Performing Arts Journal (New York).
I will also finish a new book year which will probably be called "The
Burial" and is a kind of experiment/meditation on (subtitle):
"Environments for Movement: interactivity/networks, new architecture,
new dance."
Furthermore, I often stumble into very interesting essays published in
catalogues by museums that house exhibitions on new media arts, see for
example the excellent ARTINTACT series (with CD-ROMs) published by the
ZKM in Karlsruhe (in german and english), or the Wexner catalogue on
"Body Mecanique."
And you might want to look for proceedings of conferences that are now
being held on the emerging subject of interactivity. For example, the
Conference on
Liminality and Performance (April 2000) is planning to publish their
Conference proceedings in a special issue of the forthcoming journal,
"Body, Space & Technology." You might check the "Body/Dance/Technology"
debates of the Chatterbox curated by Ghislane Boddington
(http://www.isea.qc.ca/chatter/chatter.htm). And there is a new
Australian online journal, MESH, that publishes on experimental media
arts and technology (http://www.experimenta.org), and there are reviews
by the online LEONARDO journal.
You also want to check the pioneering work that has been done in
interactive performance at the ISA (Arziona State University), for
example last summer's cellbytes project:
[http://isa.asu.edu/html/index.html]
http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/
There was also an Interactive Media project at Georgia Tech:
http://www.oip.gatech.edu/IMTC/html/dance_tech.html
Similar research is going on in the UK and on the european continent.
Richard Povall might know a lot about this:
http://www.frogpeak.org/fpartists/fppovall.html
For new Japanese work in multimedia/interactive dance, look for Dumb
Type:
http://dt.ntticc.or.jp/
Marina Grzinic (Ljubljana, Slovenia) has pubished a book, "Fiction
Reconstructed" (Vienna: Selene, 2000), with some really sharp chapters
on real/virtual space.
Emil Hrvatin is now editor of the Slovene journal MASKA, and they will
publish essays on performance technologies.
Well. I am sure I have left out others, and please complement my
suggestions, and apologies to those I have overlooked.
If you are interested in reading the heated debates we had this summer
on this list during our interactive dance workshops, please feel free to
write to me, I collected the discussions in an archive; they are now
part of an emergent history of dance/interactivity, too.
greetings
Johannes Birringer
AlienNation Co.
http://www.aliennationcompany.com
OSU_Dance
http://dance.ohio-state.edu/files/Dance_and_Technology/environ.html
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