Workshop Description

The absurd state of substitution and instrumentalization of our human bodies by avatars in social networks such as Second Life@, confronts us with the limitation of punching keys to control their moves and communication, as well as their gender and dance behavior stereotypification.

The workshops foster new modes of mixed reality interaction with virtual bodies (avatars and video mediation) based on somatic practices, such as, Body-Mind Centering, Tai Chi and Contact Improvisation, which open up our kinesthetic sensing and thinking through witnessing within oneself and with others, gravity, space and time. Creative experimentation of movement interaction is based on the critical analysis of different types of game interfaces, including the Wiimote, and the Kinect. We will critically analyze these interfaces through an aesthetic-artistic experimentation with a view for alternative possibilities.

Workshop 1-4pm

Discussion 4-5pm

Conductors: Isabel Valverde, Todd Cochrane, Becca Wood, Pei-Jung Lee.

Workshop is Free and Open to Everyone

Also in Se cond Life© SLURL:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/233/233/3005

Senses Places is Open in Permanence at:

Fridge Gallery
Wellington Institute of Technology
C Bloc, 23-27 Kensington Av., Petone, New Zealand

July 16 to 28,  Monday to Thursday, 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Senses Places Blog: http://sensesplaces.wordpress.com