[ISEA2015] Artists Talk: Andrea Polli, Erin Fussell & Rachel McCauley — g_olo_g: Choreographing with Networked Mobile Media

Artists Statement

How have networked, mobile media transformed our movement vocabularies? How can choreography transform through the use of networked, mobile media in performance? This short demonstration presents ideas for Interdisciplinary choreographic experiments using smartphone video conferencing, video projection, dancers, movement and sound created in a collaborative process with graduate and undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico and from the Glasgow School of Art. Referencing the choreography of mobile media interaction: the selfie, the security webcam, the gopro, and skype, how can performers convey this more personal, private meaning to an audience in a public performance, and how can performances evolve between actual public and private space?
For the demonstration we will have at least one performer in the space physically and at least one presenting virtually through smartphone camera. We will develop a short demonstration choreography/duet that examines one or more of the following:

  1. The depth of the physical stage space versus a flat, projected virtual space
  2. The vertical, horizontal and transverse axes of the dancers compared to the tilt axis of the mobile devices
  3. Speed and acceleration of movement and the corresponding effect on real time mobile video
  4. Levels of movement: high, low and mid level for the dancers and the corresponding or contrasting positioning of mobile devices
  5. Interactions between dancers in physical space versus interactions between performers in physical and virtual space
  6. Public physical space versus projected private space
  • Andrea Polli, Associate Professor in Art and Ecology (Fine Arts and Engineering) Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media, University of New Mexico, USA
  • Erin Fussell, MFA candidate, University of New Mexico, USA
  • Rachel McCaulley, recent graduate, University of New Mexico, USA