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Symposium
Susie
Ramsay
Bring
Your Body: Dance and New Technologies
Presented
Friday May 10th at 1 pm
A
brief encounter with new media interfaces and virtual spaces
would probably convince most dance artists that they have
no part to play in the new electronic revolution. The experience
of the body constricted by virtual technology is often more
limiting than stimulating for dancers. As an agent ofmemory,
the expressive bodymind in dance and theatre traditions is
sophisticated where the computer is primitive. However, models
of human-machine interaction that reconcile virtual action
and real consequence, that insist on the material body and
that use real physical space do exist. They also reflect a
different way of thinking: when going to cyberspace, bringyour
body. The ambivalence in the dance community towards virtuality
will be discussed within a framework of traditional cultural
attitudes about the body as well as historical examples of
technological innovation on the part of dance artists.
Susie Ramsay - Biography
BFA in Choreography from Concordia University, currently doing
a Masters in Dance at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Organized
5CYBERCONF and the LIFE x.0 Competitions. Lectured at ZKM
Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe; given workshops at
Complutense University Madrid, Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste
Nuremberg.
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