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Movement and Emotion as Computational Interfaces
Workshop :: Speaker Series :: a convergence of art, science, technology, and performance
June 6th - June 12th, 2016
York University • School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design • Toronto, Canada
http://ndstudiolab.com/meci

**** REGISTRATION DEADLINE APRIL 30th!! ****

This workshop will explore how technology can help us create deeper connections with the world around us, each other, and ourselves by combining the latest advances in bioinformatic sensing technology with modes of physiological awareness found in somatic performance practice. Lead by an interdisciplinary team that have backgrounds in performance, computational media art, and bioengineering, the workshop will be a point of convergence for fields that are working in the larger domain of emotive research both internationally and within Canada. This includes consciousness hackers who explore how technology can positively change the way we think, feel, and live; performers and others who use somatic awareness as a tool for the recreation of authentic emotion; and computational media artists, who use technology to explore questions of human and machine through artworks that critique our techno-scientific world. The workshop is targeted for a diverse audience including students, emerging scholars and other highly qualified personnel from both the academic and private sectors. Participants are welcome from a variety of fields such as performance, somatic movement and awareness, computational media arts, entertainment, gaming, computer science, architecture, and other art/science collaborations.

* Workshop *
This seven day workshop will take place from June 6th - 12th and will explore how technology can help us create deeper connections with the world around us, each other, and ourselves by combining the latest advances in bioinformatic sensing technology with modes of physiological awareness found in somatic performance practice. Activities will include seminars and practicums on somatic performance and movement, and technical foundations on working with bioinformatic sensors with media based software.

* Speaker Series *
A speaker series will be running during the workshop from June 6th - June 10th, 2016. All talks during the workshop are free and open to the public.

Erika Batdorf
Monday June 6th, 2016
The Batdorf Technique: Kinesthetic Transference
and Interoceptive Awareness in Performance

Martha Eddy & Stephen Auger
Tuesday June 7th, 2016
The Embodied Physiology of Perception

Alan Macy
Wednesday June 8th, 2016
Bioinformatics and the Human-Computer Interface

Marcos Novak
Friday June 10th, 2016
Transverging Cognition and Creativity