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The Topological Media Lab will host 3 workshops during the Encuentro festival the 24th, 25th and 26th of June 2014.
A series of three workshops directed towards exploring the lab’s philosophical and physical engagement with various streams of research, techniques and technologies used in the “enchantment of environments and matter” and the expression of that research in the real world. JUNE 24 – 9:00 AM – OPEN LAB EV7.725 Navid Navab, Evan Montpellier, Nikolas Chandolias, Jerome Delapierre and Michael Montanaro JUNE 25 – 9:00 AM – GESTURE BENDING WORKSHOP MOVEMENT IN RESPONSIVE MEDIA,MB 7.265 Navid Navab, Jerome Delapierre and Roger Sinha, Michael Montanaro JUNE 26 -9:00 AM – GESTURE BENDING WORKSHOP ENCHANTED MATTER – MB 7.265 Navid Navab, Michael Montanaro |
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TML - Cambridge University
Centre Music & Science movement+sound workshop - 2012 Exploring in practice how people make sense of each other and of the environment in movement, using expert creative process from movement arts. ...exploring experimentally and in performance what happens when things are disrupted, i.e. when flow is disturbed in the relation between movement, time, both within a person and across persons at the relational level……. understanding what makes flow possible. |
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Ouija Experiment
on Collective Gesture in Responsive Media Spaces In July 2007 the Topological Media Lab conducted a series of experiments - called Ouija - regarding movement and intentionality at Concordia's EV Blackbox. Choreographers Soo-yeon Cho & advisor Michael Montanaro, 9 dancers,and members of the Topological Media Lab, and collaborating scientists, held a series of experiments in structured improvisation exploring the emergence of collective intention in a field of movement. The field of movement includes un-prepared everyday "un-conscious" movement, pre-conditioned but un-rehearsed movement, as well as fully phrased movement. The experiments will include dancers and non-dancers, sometimes identified as such, sometimes not. All these experimental events lived in a set of responsive substrate media supplied: with Oxygen's calligraphic media and gestural sound, WYSIWYG's sounding tapestries, and some proto-jewelry. See the TML Showcase of Cosmicomics, Meteor Shower, and WYSIWYG for some related media work. credits
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Nataraja
Concordia University Artaudian Lights took place in Hexagram’s black box research facility in collaboration with Harry Smoak and under the umbrella of Dr. Sha Xin Wei’s Topological Media Lab. The three-week residency marked the beginning of an ongoing investigation into the development of new technological and human models for performance based sensing environments. The collaboration was designed to deal with issues that revolve around the interaction between movement, lights and projection via video sensing. The focus of our ongoing research will be to explore, identify and develop new movement and technological structures whose frameworks have a built in capacity for transcending the boundaries that currently exist between reactive and interactive systems. The three week residency, which began on November 1, 2006 culminated in a public demonstration and roundtable discussion on November 16th. credits
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d_verse
2006 These video clips represent a small portion of the exploratory process that was PK Langshaws' d_verse The project’s design presents a unique opportunity for collaboration and the examination of how a collective creative structure will affect the creative process relative to the exploration of physical movement and sensor based interactivity. It also provided me with the chance to test the results of previous movement research within a structure derived from the examination of gesture. Gesture represents a movement currency whose physical, rhythmical and dynamic values are shared by numerous art forms. This shared experience allows for an exploration that transcends movement as performance art, further blurring the line between performer and observer, leaving it open to technological intervention on a very basic level. In terms of movement exploration the cross-discipline nature of gesture creates an environment, which by its very character, is primed for interaction. PI / PK Lankshaw |