The following message was posted to: dance-tech :::::::::24/07/02::::13:00 -0400::::Floris Maathuis::::::::: >Recenty I became interested in combining my different interests. Hereby I >was thinking of subjects like: >-robotics in theater or dance >-artificial intelligence in theater or dance >-interactive decors >-interaction between players/dancers and computers > >I'dd like to know if there's anybody on this list who is working with one >of these subjects or knows anybody who does. >I am very interested in what people did, do and want to do in this field. Hello, the absolute pioneer is Nicolas Schoeffer, who did a cybernetic robot dancing in a choregraphy of Maurice Bejart and on the music of Pierre Henry, in 1956, in Marseille : http://www.olats.org/schoffer/cyspma.htm http://www.olats.org/schoffer/arch0065.htm In 1998, I personnaly worked on a choregraphic piece, where I built an autonomous entity that danced in front of a dancer, in an improvisational setting : http://www.gratin.org/as/txts/sparks.html Currently, we are working, with Jean-Marc Matos and Anne Holst, on a performance centered on the relationship of a dancer with an autonomous system. This may lead to a presentation to the public some time next year. I think that autonomous systems (artificial dancers) are a very rich matter for choregraphic work. I find it hard to find choregraphers who think the same way though. Antoine ---------------------------------------- The Dance-Tech mailing list has recently moved to a new address. To post a message, send email to dance-tech@dancetechnology.org. To unsubscribe, send email to lists@dancetechnology.org, with the words "unsubscribe dance-tech" in the message body. ----------------------------------------
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