Artist Statement

Keywords: Robotic Art, Interactive, Surrogate Performer, Environmental, Electronic, Ice, Moulin, Floodwaters, Malignancy, Durational, Landscapes

In this artist talk, I will introduce my artworks of interactive dance performances that spatially and temporally reconstruct body movements. Dance is an art of body and movement. Technologies have been brought to the stage in various way by many artists. My key interest has been an expansion of bodily expression by technological means. Many of my artworks were based on spatial and temporal reconstruction of dance movement. I used video, depth image of the body or noise from joints as sources. Buffer(or delay line)-based heterochronic recombination or feedback loop and geometric transforms are my favorite structural approaches. Although these are hardly fresh techniques, they effectively stimulate fundamental elements of dance like rhythmicality and geometry. Also, It has enormous combinations yet to be explored. These are main topics of this talk. With description and video clips of scenes of several dance pieces, I hope I can share such ideas with audiences.

• Jeong-seob Lee received B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 2010. Also, he has an experience as a trained dancer and choreographer. Later he received M.S. and Ph.D. degree in culture technology from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, in 2012 and 2019. With experiences as a dancer and engineer, he has conducted academic and creative activities that combines the two area. He participated many performances and installation arts as designer, developer and dancer.

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