“From Real to Virtual Embodied Performance: A Case Study Between Dance and Technology” presented by Barros, Ferreira-Lopes and Moura

Symposium:

• ISEA2019: 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Digital Body and Performance

• From Real to Virtual Embodied Performance: A Case Study Between Dance and Technology

• Né Barros
• Paulo Ferreira-Lopes
• João Martinho Moura

Venue(s):

• Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, South Korea

• Co:Lateral is an artistic project that aims to explore the means offered by digital technologies in performance. We conceptualized, developed and implemented a digital artifact, resulting in a digital performance based on the structure of realities born of a body and its double in movement. In this project, authors carried out a research and experimentation process in close collaboration with a contemporary dance company, in order to design the relation between real and virtual body and extend it in a relationship of intimacy with interactive virtual reality. The performative discourse that resulted from this dialogue allows a poetic impulse that evokes moments of the death of the swan immersed in an immaterial space of light and projection: a phantom of a dance file that now returns to a reality of illusory imprisonment. We will make a general introduction to digital art and interactivity, introducing the concept of digital performance and its contextualization in digital and contemporary art.

Category:

• Long Paper
• Paper