DIGITAL HEAVEN
dance performance with interactive technologies by Cristina Bodnărescu & Anamaria Guguian performed at WASP Studios Bucharest, November 2022.
DIGITAL HEAVEN, 2022
Concept, visuals, programming: Cristina Bodnarescu
Dance, choreography: Anamaria Guguian
Original music and sound design: Ethics of Joy (Cristina Bodnarescu, George Urse)
Synopsis:
A human body is transferred into the digital realm through body scanning. At first, the newly born digital double learns to move and act from her analogue body, but it later outgrows her.
Description:
Emphasising a certain metamorphosis between the visceral and the virtual bodies, the organic and the artificial, “Digital Heaven” explores the dialogue between the dancer and her digital double at the intersection and colliding of the two worlds. Adopting an aesthetic of bodily disappearance, in “Digital Heaven” the internal contradictions of identity are not resolved, but are made manifest.
Following a predetermined narrative path, but leaving space for human-computer improvisation, the choreographic performance raises questions regarding notions of body surface and double, by using interactive technologies such as projection mapping and gesture recognition.
Digital Heaven is an interactive dance performance which uses
- embodied interaction
- dynamic projection mapping on the performer’s body
- body interaction with visual systems
- gesture recognition to trigger audio-visual cues
- generative visuals
- a Kinect motion sensor
The performance followed a Q&A session and the scene „Reaching Digital Heaven” was put on display, so all the participants could to interact with their own digital double.
