Catie Cuan
ABSTRACT
OUTPUT is a collaboration between a dancer/choreographer, roboticists, software engineers, and filmmakers, developed over the course of an artist residency at software engineering company Thought-Works. The result is a live performance, two custom software programs, a short film, an improvisational structure, and an artistic methodology for choreographing robots. The motions of a dancer and a massive industrial robot are collapsed from 3D into 2D video, animation, and Kinect depth sensor data, revealing the biases and limitations of each representation. In performance, the software programs run livetime on laptops which are projected onto screens. The performer improvises with these programs like musical instruments - a practice bridging computation, improvisation, and dance - and embodying the process of "being inside the machine".
- Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels. 2018. Robots at work. Review of Economics and Statistics 100, 5 (2018), 753--768.Google Scholar
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- OUTPUT: Vestiges of Human and Robot Bodies
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