Creating Choreographic Code - a One Day Workshop With Joana Chicau

THIS IS A PAID $100 WORKSHOP ON APRIL 21st, 11AM to 4PM. A NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF $25.00 SHOULD BE SENT TO [email protected]

Media Choreographies: Workshop
A cross-disciplinary exploration of choreography & (web)code open to any participants curious to explore the use of choreographic techniques to generate newness in design, new modes of thinking algorithmic composition, participation, collaborations and articulations between bodies and technologies.

Choreographic Input
Focus on post-modern dance references and choreographic notions include: tempo, duration, rhythmic structures; spatial dimensions, relationships, and intensities; kinaesthesia, dynamics, stability, simultaneity; improvisation techniques, repetition, variation
accumulation substitution, elements of chance.

Coding Input
How are movement, gestures, discourses and behaviours choreographed and communicated through (digital) apparatuses? The workshop will use Free/Libre Open Source Software (Floss) models and focus mainly on web programming. Live coding practices within web programming will be introduced but work developed within other computer languages and environments is available. Code experiments will be compiled, and published online at: github.com/JoBCB

Results:
The outcome is a piece of ‘choreographic code' — participants are invited to contribute to the choreographic code by translating the ideas discussed in the session into a new collective vocabulary: combining computer programming functions and choreography.

Joana Chicau is a media designer, creative coder, researcher with a background in classical and contemporary dance - based in The Netherlands. She runs a transdisciplinary research project [https://jobcb.github.io ] which interweaves media design and web environments with performance and choreographic practices.