PALATINE

"ADAPT is an interdisciplinary association of artists, technologists and scholars from five educational institutions dedicated to research and critical dialogue on performance and media in telematic space." (Home page)

Site of the month 03/04
REVIEW: Body, Space and Technology (BST) is a new on-line journal published in association with the Department of Performing Arts at Brunel University. Its broad scope of interdisciplinary enquiry makes it a particularly welcome e-journal, encouraging new negotiations and border crossings between performance and technology. The second issue aimed to include sound and video clips, demonstrating a desire to incorporate technological developments in both form and content. There is no charge for on-line use of the journal.
Reviewed July 2001, by Stuart Andrews.

Site of the month 03/05
Motion capture, animation and software for making dances. This paper explores some of the history of Motion Camera work in choreography and looks to future opportunities offered by this technology. Scott DeLahunter, January 2000, links to several large images, links and references.

REVIEW: The CIA is based at San Francisco State University and the website provides information on past and present courses, a gallery of work and links. These include An 'Introduction to Emerging Research Areas of Interest to Artists' which includes technological and biological research; an impressive bibliography, which incorporates nature and ecological research, computing, critical theory; organisations, festivals and essays. The essays section incorporates syllabi previously on the web. Scroll down for essays rather than syllabi. These entries are referenced, often with hyperlinks, and provide an introduction to the course area, together with a timeline of classes.
Reviewed June 2002, by Stuart Andrews.

Site is currently being updated
REVIEW: The site resulted from a project by Troika Ranch and Writing Research Associates and creates space to engage with issues of dance and technology. D&TZ was designed to facilitate debate between artists through encouraging research and enquiry, providing data on practitioners/events and providing practical information. D&TZ advertises the dance-tech list server and holds a list of practitioners in the field (often with annotations submitted by artists/practitioners). It contains an impressive list of specialist articles and resources on-line, a bibliography and a section of the available technology and its value in dance. The site would benefit from including more up to date material.
Reviewed April 2001, Stuart Andrews.

The Potential for Graphic Synergy.

Technology to create choreography and music. Brief Article.

An experimentarium (bibliography).

The Digital Worlds Institute exists to nurture leading edge research and education between engineering and the arts, utilizing the tools of digital technology and culture. By bringing together the diverse talents of University of Florida faculty, students, and staff in a multifaceted collaborative environment, the Institute serves as a platform for interdisciplinary research that would not have occurred within the confines of any one college or department. Through the use of telecommunications and high performance technologies, the Institute reaches out across the campus, state, nation, and the world to share new tools and opportunities with creative people everywhere.

Digital Performance Archive.

Site of the month 06/04
REVIEW: Amanda Steggell argues that dance has too long been left out of investigations with technology and that there is much that dance has to offer these new cyber worlds. Crucial to her account is a dancer's knowledge of 'movement, transformation, time and space'. Her very practical article addresses specific areas where dance and technology can interact on a practitioner's budget: the Internet, the Life Forms software, Animation (Swivel), Labanwriter, Improvisation Technologies, Sound, Video Editing, Photographic Material from Video, Interactive Performance and/or Installation. Written in 1995/96 the article already shows its age in its discussion of the Internet and the limited reference to video and digital video technology.
Reviewed July 2001, Stuart Andrews.

A virtual dance installation.

Annotated links for UK and US Internet sites.

Interactive spaces for dance, theater, circus, and museum exhibits.

"Palindrome is known for its work with interactive systems. Using bio-sensors and motion tracking technology the music, lighting or video projections are controlled by the dancers' movement. This is hard to imagine. That is why there are a lot of videos at this web site."

A report based on the Riverbed Residency in UCI Motion Capture Studio, Scott DeLahunta, May 2001, includes range of links and references.

UCLA Department, includes showcase of videos and projects, Center for Intercultural Performance, news page. Bibliographies

XSpasm focuses on the application of technology in dance teaching, learning, choreography, performance and viewing. XSpasm wants to bring together those developing the technology and those who could make good use of it.

Michelle Nesbit Hill has gathered 94 paper-based sources (a motion capture section will follow) as part of her alumni page at the University of California Santa Cruz. After opening this page, a prompt appears asking if you want to continue the submission, which is being transferred by email (1996, US).