Registers as inventions: body, dance, memory and digital medias

Abstract

This PHD research aims to map and study a selection of artistic propositions that use digital interfaces to deal with creations related to body, dance, memory and archives. The focus is on how new technologies are affecting the process of creation, opening up to new modes of interactions with the public, as well as instigating new approaches to cognition, memory and the means of registration. The research is inspired by and will make use of some methodologies and softwares (Piecemaker and MoSys) developed and used by the Motion Bank project. As such, some 'choreographic objects' will be proposed based on three selected performances made in Brazil; furthermore, different approaches to handling digital archiving in dance will be explored. The main question of this research refers to the modes of dance using new technologies. We also want to test how much embodied experiences related to choreographic's principles can be amplified and perceived throughout the creative process of proposing choreographic objects as well as sustaining the notions of bodies as dynamical archives.