[ISEA2004] Artist Talk: Marlon Barrios Solano – Unstable landscape: Bottom-Up Composition and a Post-humanist Era

Artist Statement

Unstablelandscape is my artistic and research platform to investigate and deploy: Dance improvisation within digitally augmented environments; The dramatic tension between design and desire, abstract patterns and anthropomorphic depictions; Real time composition or improvisational performances with hybrid systems (humans, computers and other living systems); The improvisational creative act with generative strategies and systems; Alternative human-computer interfaces for dance performance and multimedia installations; Embodied, embedded and distributed cognition; The relation between moving bodies, cognition, technology and the design of experiences and realities; The intelligence of biological systems and bottom-up or biologically inspired architectures for art making and performance systems and?The relation between improvisational digital pop-culture (DJ/VJ), art making and social events/performances.

  • Marlon Barrios Solano, VE/USA. I am a Venezuelan dance and new media artist/researcher, based in usa since 1994. My work explores dance improvisation, “real time” interactive technologies, artificial intelligence and embodied cognition. As a dancer in USA, i performed with new york choreographers Susan Marshall, Lynn Shapiro, Bill Young among others, and with the musicians Philip Glass, John Zorn and Eric Friedlander. I have participated in festivals in Venezuela, Austria, Scotland, Poland and the USA (New york improv festival 97-98-99) and lectured internationaly on improvisation, interactive media and perspectives on embodiment.
    I have been invited to present my research at the conferences towards a science of  consciousness: Tucson 2000, 2002 and 2004 (USA), consciousness and its place in nature: Skovde 2001 (Sweden), Interaktionlabor 2003 – 2004 (Germany) ,isea2004 (Baltic sea) and art and technology (Utah, 2004). I am participating at the oik/junxion project at steim (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and i am a third year mfa student in dance and technology at the ohio state university. I was a guest lecturer in new media at denison university and a 2004 dupont series lecturer at the art institute of Boston at Lesley university.

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