Hybridized Practice

Last term I looked at ways of marrying dance (particularly thinking about Argentine Tango) with technology. I looked at various websites to see what was being done already…

Interactive dance/performance
http://www.igloo.org.uk/main.html
http://www.igloo.org.uk/dotdotdot/Dswmedia/index.htm
http://createdigitalmotion.com/tag/diy/
http://www.essexdance.co.uk/DanceTech/pages/page1.htm
http://troikaranch.org/technology.html
http://www.companyinspace.com/front/cis_fs.htm
http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/

– Particularly relevant to my project:
http://www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html
http://www.betaminds.com/interactfx/index.htm
http://naturalinteraction.org/files/whitepaper.pdf
http://www.feedtank.com/dfm.html
http://www.elkabong.com/IDC/idc.html
http://www.arcstreamav.com/poolSystem.htm?ppc_agent=google&term=interactive+floors
http://www.luminvision.co.uk/interactivesoftware.htm
http://www.naturalinteraction.org/
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/research/amuc.htm
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.mobile.innovation.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA1P-eI794Q (shoes + comment: The result shown here is an interesting start. It’d be more interesting if there were gyros wired in that would interpret sweeping motions of the legs/feet… perhaps as pitch shifting or other “velocity” based effects. Definitely a lot of potential.)

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