SYMPOSIUM
On Dancing and Braiding
10am-5pm, Fri 17 May 2019
Site Gallery
I will be chairing a session called
‘Threads and technologies on the move’ as part of the Algomech
festival, which builds on my recent interlocutory experience within
the AHRC funded Weaving Codes | Coding Weaves project.
Launching AlgoMech Festival, an
interdisciplinary symposium bringing together perspectives from digital media,
choreography & dance technology, traditional Andean and Ancient Greek
textiles, e-textiles, philology, live coding and architecture. Through talks,
discussion and performance, contributors to the symposium will consider their
work in the context of interlacing within and between textiles, e-textiles,
pattern, structure and movement, including dance. Interfaces between materials,
craft technologies, digital engineering, responsive systems, embodied
communications, threads, inter-weaving, intertwining, braiding and building
will provide a rich vein of dialogue, experimentation and recent practice-led
outcomes.