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Design + Dance: Communication Arts Interactive features Synchronous Objects

The new edition of Communication Arts Interactive features Synchronous Objects you can view a nice web summary here. We are thrilled to be one of 38 winners selected from 1000s of entries.

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One of the goals of our project is to place dance and choreographic knowledge at the center of other disciplinary discussions. This goal is an outgrowth of Forsythe’s experience with his earlier media object, the Improvisation Technologies CD-Rom which was taken up by architects as a creative and pedagogical tool when it was published in the 1990s. Architecture is once again showing an interest in the Sync/O project but we’ve also seen an expanded interest on the part of designers as evidenced by this Communication Arts feature but also by selection of our work for the SIGGRAPH 09 Information Aesthetics Showcase and features on the Information Aesthetics blog and on visualcomplexity.com. And in a nice bit of synergy, our guest contributor last week, Kristin McGuire suggests the connections between choreographic and design pedagogy.

So then, if we consider choreographic thinking to be an important site of knowledge for many contemporary concerns in other fields how do we continue to broaden the dialog? What about choreography as form of geographic thinking, a source of knowledge for urban planning, or an important resource in gestural interface design for things like Microsoft’s project Natal or new games for the wii? For those of us in dance this may seem clear. But how do we continue to communicate and to bridge the gaps? Thoughts?

–Norah

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4 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. A combination of design and dance would be very great because it will result to a successful performance.

    Mon, March 29, 12:12 PM EDT
  2. Studio One RP Commented:

    This is a very interesting. I would love to read more about it. I hope you keep us up to date on this subject.

    Mon, March 29, 12:12 PM EDT
  3. nzshaw Commented:

    I will. Thanks. the blog is usually the most up to date but you can also follow us on twitter at syncobjects
    thanks
    n

    Mon, March 29, 12:12 PM EDT
  4. my blog Commented:

    I do consider all the ideas you have introduced for your post. They’re really convincing and will certainly work. Still, the posts are very brief for newbies. Could you please extend them a bit from subsequent time? Thank you for the post.

    Mon, March 29, 12:12 PM EDT

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