John McCormick


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Swinburne University of Technology

Other Affiliation(s):


  • Deakin University, Motion.Lab

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2024

    John McCormick is a technology based artist with a major interest in movement. John has collaborated on works worldwideincluding at ISEAZERO1SJSIGGRAPHMelbourne FestivalSiggraph AsiaArs Electronica FuturelabTokyo International Forum and Art Science Museum Singapore. John’s current works investigate the developing relationships between humandigital and cyber-physical systems incorporating VRARmotion captureAIdance and robotics. John is a former Australia Council Arts Fellowan Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow and visiting artist at Ars Electronica Futurelab. He is acting director of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology.

    ISEA2015

    John McCormick & Steph Hutchison investigate the use of machine learning for the development of intelligent performing partners and environments. Their practice has centred on the application of learning techniques to performing software agents and humanoid robots to explore the potential for them to become more a part of the collaborative performance-making process. Steph and John are artist researchers at Motion. Lab Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. McCormick is Deputy Director,  Hutchison is PhD Candidate

    ISEA2013

    John McCormick, Motion lab, Deakin University, Victoria, AU

    ISEA2011

    John Mc­Cormick (AU) has been ac­tive in the area of dance and new media for many years. He was a found­ing mem­ber of Com­pany In Space (with Hellen Sky), Dance­house and Square­tan­gle (with Adam Nash). He has worked on a num­ber of per­for­mances in­cor­po­rat­ing mo­tion cap­ture tech­nolo­gies in­clud­ing  the Com­pany In Space works CO3 (2001), The Light­room (2004) and Sen­tient Space (2005), the lat­ter in col­lab­o­ra­tion with igloo and Adam Nash, Aura (2009) with Kim Vincs and Choreoto­pog­ra­phy (2010) with Kim Vincs, Daniel Skovli, Peter Divers and Rob Vincs. John teaches mo­tion cap­ture and dance at Deakin Uni­ver­sity in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia and is cur­rently un­der­tak­ing re­search at the Deakin Motion.lab and the Cen­tre for In­tel­li­gent Sys­tems Re­search.

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Last Known Location:


  • Melbourne, Australia

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