From real to virtual embodied performance – a case study between dance and technology

João Martinho Moura, Né Barros, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes. ISEA 2019

Abstract:

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.

Keywords:
Digital Performance, Virtual Reality, Dance, Embodiment, Cyberspace, Media Arts

ISEA 2019

Publication details:

Moura, João Martinho; Barros, Né; Ferreira-Lopes, Paulo. 2019.
From real to virtual embodied performance – a case study between dance and technology.
Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art – ISEA 2019 ‘Lux Aeterna’.  Park, J; Nam, J.; Park J.W. (Eds). p370-377. Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
ISBN: 979-11-87275-06-0

Book chapter
Research conducted at School of Arts, CITAR, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Balleteatro, Porto. 

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Performance in Virtual Reality. Co:Lateral (2016-2019). Né Barros and João Martinho Moura