[ISEA2019] Paper: João Martinho Moura, Né Barros & Paulo Ferreira-Lopes — From real to virtual embodied performance: a case study between dance and technology

Abstract

Keywords: Digital Performance, Virtual Reality, Dance, Embodiment, Cyberspace, Media Arts

Co:Lateral is an artistic project that aims to explore the means offered by digital technologies in performance. We conceptualized, developed and implemented a digital artifact, resulting in a digital performance based on the structure of realities born of a body and its double in movement. In this project, authors carried out a research and experimentation process in close collaboration with a contemporary dance company, in order to design the relation between real and virtual body and extend it in a relationship of intimacy with interactive virtual reality. The performative discourse that resulted from this dialogue allows a poetic impulse that evokes moments of the death of the swan immersed in an immaterial space of light and projection: a phantom of a dance file that now returns to a reality of illusory imprisonment. We will make a general introduction to digital art and interactivity, introducing the concept of digital performance and its contextualization in digital and contemporary art.

  • João Martinho Moura & Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, CITAR, School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal
  • Né Barros, Balleteatro, Porto, Portugal

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We thank the entire team of contemporary dance company Balleteatro for all the support in the presentation of the shows. To the CITAR (Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts) for its support in the research conducted in this project. To the UNESCO Braga Media Arts organization, for the support in part of the hardware. To Casa Rolão for the support in space for rehearsals. We also acknowledge Direção Geral das Artes, Portugal, for financial support. Special thanks to the openframeworks community on their open-source software contributions for the digital arts. This publication is sponsored by National Funds through FTC – Foundation for Science and Technology under the project UID/EAT/00622/2019.