Networked Bodies – Digital Performance Weekender is a weekend of performances, presentations and interactive workshops at Wa
termans Art Centre. Networked Bodies wants to explore networked performance practices with a view to considering how they transform live (embodied, disembodied and trans-bodied) performance practices.
body>data>space collective (and previously Shinkansen) has been envisioning the future of the human body and its real-time relationship to evolving global, social and technological shifts since the mid nineties and has been invited to present different projects as part of Networked Bodies:
– RING THE CHANGES+ a digital performance created by deaf dance artist Chisato Minamimura in collaboration with software artist Nick Rothwell and digital pioneers body>data>space. We invite you to experience a playful exploration of visual sound, the result of a unique collaboration between dance and digital artists, hearing and non-hearing sensibilities. Saturday 8 November, 8pm
– ‘me and my shadow’ film on plasma screen, as an example of an international telepresence experience connecting participants through a shared online environment, in the main gallery
– A presentation of body>data>space and Shinkansen projects since the mid-nineties by Marie Proffit and Nick Rothwell as part of the Networked Bodies Symposium, Saturday 8 November from 2.30pm
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RING THE CHANGES+ is supported by Unlimited, celebrating the work of disabled artists, using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Creative Scotland