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Dance Becoming Data: Part One Software for Dancers – Computational Culture

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The starting point for this contribution to the special section of Computational Culture on Computing the Corporeal is a relatively small cluster of research projects starting in 2000, which explored various roles that software and software development might play in the context of contemporary dance creation and performance. The inaugural project for which four choreographers, four software artists/ developers and additional guests were invited to take part was titled Software for Dancers.1 The motivation for the project was the need to question more extensively the historical and cultural accumulation of bodily skills, sensory knowledge and tacit understanding, which would be the domain of dance artists, as a critical precursor to engaging with software. The title of the project came from the book Software for People: collected writings 1963-80 of the American composer Pauline Oliveros. Software for People was originally the title Oliveros had given to a paper she presented at an inte

Article Information Author(s): Scott deLahunta Affiliation(s): MotionBank, Hochschule Mainz University of Applied Sciences; Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University; Deakin Motion.lab, Deakin University Publication Date: 28th November 2017 Issue: 6 Citation: Scott deLahunta. "Dance Becoming Data: Part One Software for Dancers." Computational Culture 6 (28th November 2017). http://computationalculture.net/dance-becoming-data-part-one-software-for-dancers/. Print/Save as PDF Abstract The starting point for this contribution to the special section of Computational Culture on Computing the C

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