The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:
Ephemeral Gumboots: Dancing the Rhythm of Change
Cobi van Tonder, Artist and Musician, Johannesburg
*Wed*, 28 Sept, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.
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The history of Gumboot dance illustrates the potential of culture for
transforming social aggression. Cobi will present Ephemeral Gumboots,
a hybrid media artwork/musical instrument that takes South African
Gumboot dance and extends it as an interface into an electronic
music-making system. How does the music of Ephemeral Gumboots reflect
the media age in South Africa? How has the artist or facilitator,
responded (or succumbed) to the politics and hegemony of technology?
For Deleuze and Guattari, music "both simulates space and creates it
literally, on the dance floor, in headphones, on the Internet" (Andrew
Murphy, 2000). The refrains of dance music provide territories for
the body and mind to move and travel. Cobi will reflect on the
contemporary impact of technology and her personal experience of it as
she presents her project from a socio and political perspective. She
will also invite composers and dancers to use her system for further
creative exploration.
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Cobi van Tonder, aka OTOPLASMA, is a South African composer, producer
and performer who specialises in interactive electronic music and
other digital media. She has worked with various dance choreographers,
video artists and actors. She also produces commercially for cinema,
television, radio and mobile media. Cobi van Tonder holds a degree in
Music in History and Society ( University Of The Witwatersrand ) ; a
National Diploma in Light Music (Technikon Pretoria) and a National
Certificate in Musical Theatre (Technikon Pretoria). She was born in
Pretoria and grew up in a small town in the North Western countryside
of South Africa. During 2005, she is ZERO ONE/IDEO
artist-in-residence in the Bay Area.
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Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
Additional ATC Sponsors: Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program,
Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, and the Townsend Center for the
Humanities.
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ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Assistant: Irene Chien
Curated with ATC Advisory Board
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atc @ ucb: cobi van tonder, wed 7:30pm
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