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Body/Machine Congress, Toronto, October 2001

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:09:44 -0700

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THE BODY/MACHINE CONGRESS
Toronto, Canada, October 2001

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Toronto's Moving Pictures Festival of
Dance on Film and Video hosts BODY/MACHINE, a dance and technology Congress,
October 2001. Moving Pictures has established an international reputation as
Canada's only presenting organization dedicated to the intersection of dance
and the media arts. As such, it is ideally positioned to produce an
international congress exploring collaborations between body-based
performance and electronic media exploration.

For one week the Toronto public and arts communities will be able to
interface with Canadian and international choreographers and body-based
artists, new media pioneers, scientists and academics, musicians and madmen,
philosophers and performers, technologists and architects. In a veritable
orgy of live performances, interactive installations, screenings, panel
discussions, hands-on new media workshops and hip happenings, the
BODY/MACHINE Congress will virtually come alive.

Although conceived within a solid ideological framework and intended to
provoke rigorous philosophical debate, the BODY/MACHINE congress will be
lively and animated, accessible to the public and will steer clear of
preaching to the converted. Aimed at artists and audiences interested in
multidisciplinary creation and hybrid approaches to making art, BODY/MACHINE
will be a presentation of possibilities and a meeting of minds.

Some food for thought:

Digital art: is it too degraded to be culture?
Visual image manipulations vs. in-depth content exploration.
Mining the archeology of our present future: aesthetic pretentions of the
present.
Copyright: is digital art merely a document of art and who gains ownership?
Digital art in constant rapid flux: today's work is history tomorrow.
The de-corporialized body: improvisations between performers and computers.
Motion capture: does this term imply an entrapment of the human body by
technology?
Conceptualization of narrative form in digital dance.
Enough with the technolgy love-in: where is the strong content?
Historical perspectives: from Oskar Schlemmer's Mechanical Ballets to
Japanese interactive computer games: wherein lies the fun?
The living cyborg: everyday life as a cyberarts performance.

We are currently in the early planning stages of the BODY/MACHINE Congress
and have identified you and/or your organization as a key player in this
field. We are committed to making this a landmark event on the dance
technology calendar, and need your work and particular area of
specialization to realize our vision. We are seeking a response from you to
learn about who is out there and what you are currently working on. Perhaps
you have a project that you could present at BODY/MACHINE in Toronto in
October, 2001?

Feel free to forward this email to others it might interest. And of course
don't hesitate to contact us for further information. Any indication of
general interest before Friday, June 16, 2000 would be greatly appreciated.

We anticipate your response.

Lisa Cochrane, Producer
BODY/MACHINE Congress

October 2001
Toronto, Canada


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