TML  -  Cambridge 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. T

he 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.

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Artaudian Lights / Nataraja 
2006

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.

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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 affects the creative process relative to the exploration of physical movement and sensor based interactivity. It also provides me with an opportunity to test the results of previous movement research within a structures 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 a framework, which by its very character, is primed for interaction.

PI / PK Lankshaw


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