Computer Arts Society Talk: Nick Rothwell
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015, 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Interact Labs, Phoenix
FREE Talk, All Invited. Please arrive a few minutes before 6:30pm
My interest is in taking concepts from software design (generative structures, algorithmic transformation, abstract notations, stochastic processes, ideas about time and state) and seeing how they map onto the process of art-making in various fields, especially choreography. Does exposure to software structures influence the creative flow and thinking in dance-making? What happens when the rule systems and methods used by choreographers are codified, magnified and mutated in software?
Nick Rothwell [cassiel] is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper. He has worked at STEIM, CAMAC and ZKM and performed with Laurie Booth, and at the ICA and the Science Museum.
He has collaborated with body>data>space to develop performance systems and sound scores for projects at CIANT (Prague), Vo'Arte (Lisbon) and in London. He is currently working on 3D software-based visual artworks for Wayne McGregor|Random Dance, music composition for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, algorithmic visuals for choreographers Kate Sicchio and Nina Kov, and architectural projection with Simeon Nelson and Rob Godman.
You can let us know if you are coming via MeetUp: http://www.meetup.com/InteractLabs/events/221280668/
More information: http://www.cassiel.com
