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• March 1- 6

  Open Studio

  Interactive multisensorial laboratories of perception and movement and on-going research on non-functional design through the production of diffuse affordances that provide multiple open-ended potentials of interaction

   

  dancers wanted.

• March 2 - 4

  Affording Difference : Workshop

  with composers and persons of

  other abilities

  with the team of 6 composers: Andreas Bergsland, Andrea Cera, Giacomo Lepri, Marcello Lussano, Pablo Palacio, Ives Schachtschabel.

   

  Each composer will present their interactive environment and each will be available for persons with and without

  disabilities to experience.

   

  How can we remove barriers to expression, joy and inclusion? How can we expand gestural expression, range of movement, and emotional expression?

   

  How can we promote a positive awareness of difference, away from normative expressions? This 3 days workshop will focus on applications of interactive technology with persons of other abilities and explore different ways to make music with movements. 6 composers, a workshop leader and a choreographer will propose different approaches of interaction, using motion tracking technology (including video-based and controller-based systems), dance and music.

   

  **this workshop is designed for persons with disabilities or without disabilities in collaboration with Lebenshilfewerk Apolda and Tröbsdorf.

• March 5- 6

  Conference : Affordances of

  Symbiosis

  "Affordances of Symbiosis: Rethinking interaction and the immeasurable potential of the body in the age of ubiquitous computing".

ALL ACTIVITIES ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC

"""Affording Differences Workshop"" will focus on work with composers and persons with disabilties, with different sensorial and social experiences.   There are six studios, each dedicated to a different interactive musical enivronment and a different approach on interaction. During the workshop, we will schedule a time for each composer to present their approach."

"""Open Studio"" is intend as an open sharing of ideas, expertise and space.  Collaboration with composers, experimental laboratory, on-going research, final architecture...  6 composers will be part of it until the 4th.

The rooms are large enough for more than one project to be happening at the same time."

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Affordances of Symbiosis

March 5-6, 2015      Weimar

 

March 5th

14.00-14:30 OPENING AND WELCOME

from Palindrome,  IMM, Jaime del Val -Reverso

 

14.30 - 15.30 KEYNOTE SPEAK

"SOCIAL SOMATICS: TOUCHING PRESENCE IN PUBLIC" Petra Kuppers

 

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

 

15.45 17:30 PANEL 1: MAPPING FOR MEANING

 

“O BODY SWAYED TO MUSIC, O BRIGHTENING GLANCE” / Robert Wechsler

ASPECTS OF DIGITAL AFFORDANCES: OPENNESS, SKILL AND EXPLORATION / Andreas Bergsland

“INMUSIC – INTERACTIVE MULTIMODAL SYSTEM FOR IMPROVISED COMPOSITION” / Giacomo Lepri

“THE GESTURAL RHYTHM: AN ALTERNATIVE CUE FOR MOTION ANALYSIS”  / Yohann Zeitoun

Q&A

 

18:30-20:00 PERFORMNANCES

WEZEN - GEWORDING - Marije Baalman (STEIM)

 

Wezen is a solo music-theatre work where Marije Baalman explores the relationship between theatrical gesture and musical instrument, between the body and the sonic world. Gewording (Becoming) is the first performance version where the link between physical and sonic gesture is explored during a live performance, combining movement of the body and live coding.

https://www.marijebaalman.eu/

 

UNBALANCED STONES - Marcello Lussana and Oscar Palou

 

The sound of swinging rocks is used in a live performance context, exploring the sound of stones moving on a surface, revealing the rhythmic patterns that are hidden in their shapes. This sound events are processed in realtime, creating repetitive beats, organic/granular textures and ambient pads.

Sound: https://soundcloud.com/erasedbodies/rocks1

 

March 6th

10.30-12.00 WORKSHOP part I

 

"AFFORDING PARADOXES: EMBODIED MINDS, PLANS AND SITUATED ACTIONS"

(Workshop from the unstable landscape series)

with Marlon Barrios Solano (VZ/USA/D)

 

total duration: 3 hours (in 2 parts; Saturday part II, time will be announced)

no registration needed / free of charge / open to everyone

@Bauhaus Hauptgebäude - 1st floor

 

This workshop is geared to explore the paradoxical dynamic complexities of awareness, body boundaries and embodied action/thoughts within knowledge and computational environments. They often imply re-trainings of perception thresholds, attention and care.

 

With mindfulness based activities, improvisational actions, compositional strategies and common network technologies, we will glimpse and enact our post-humanist condition as generative dramaturgies, inter-intra subjective activities and bottom-up performance architectures.

 

From stillness to expansive movement within ”mashup spaces" we will inquire about the role of intention, the aesthetics of change, agency, autonomy and control within hybrid intersubjective movement based generative spaces.

 

12:00-12:15 Coffee Break

 

12.15-13.00 PANEL 2: ECOLOGIES OF AFFORDANCE

 

“CONNECTING TO THE AFFORDANCE OF BODY INTELIGENCE FOR MINDFUL TECHNOLOGY USE”  / Danielle Stock

 “METAFFORDANCES – TOWARDS AN ECOLOLOGY OF INDETERMINATE PERCEPTIONS”  / Jaime del Val and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

Q&A

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

 

14.00 –15: 30 PANEL 3: TELE-AFFORDANCES

 

“SIMULATING (A) SELF: VIRTUAL REALITY, BODY OWNERSHIP AND TECHNIQUES OF IMMERSION” / David Kasprowicz

“EXPLORING EXPERIENCE IN NETWORKED SPACE”  / Christopher Bishop

“HOLOSTAGE _BE YOUR OWN AVATAR”  / Thomas Dumke

Q&A

 

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

 

15.45 -17:00 PANEL 4: SOFT-AFFORDANCE

 

“MOVING METABODIES”  / Mathilde Bonte

 “SONIC SKETCHES IN EMBODIED INTERACTION: PERCEPTUAL AFFORDANCES AND MULTIMODAL LISTENING” / Cumhur Erkut and Anu Rajala-Erkut

 “AFFORDANCES OF THE SELF AND OF THE OTHERS. GRAMMATIZATON, SENSIBILITY, CARE”  / Sara Baranzoni and Paolo Vignola

Q&A

 

17.00 End of the Conference