danceroom Spectroscopy: Lunch & Learn
RSVP required; to RSVP for the Lunch & Learn, please email Liz Celeste at lizceleste [at] stanford.edu (lizceleste[at]stanford[dot]edu).
Humans are basically fancy energy fields. That’s what we know from science, and that’s also the premise of danceroom Spectroscopy (dS), a new multi-award winning technology that utilizes 3d capture to transform people into energy fields and give them a glimpse into the dynamics of the invisible atomic world that surrounds them all the time, but which cannot be seen with the naked eye. dS has been used to construct the world’s first large scale, interactive atomic dynamics experience. At the frontier of Sci-Art collaborations, dS explores new languages and crossovers on the interface of physics, digital art, interactive technology, supercomputing, and performance. It has a range of scientistic and artistic applications: it has been used to create a multi-award winning dance performance entitled Hidden Fields, and an interactive molecular manipulation platform. In this talk, Dr. Glowacki will discuss the scientific origins of the dS project, the technology which makes it possible, the collaborations which it sparked, and show several demos of what it looks like.
Dr. Glowacki will be joined by Stanford Assistant Professor of Art, Camille Utterback, who will discuss her current experience using the dS system to develop live interactive graphics for a dance performance, Dances of the Sacred and Profane, which will premiere this September at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Dances of the Sacred and Profane is a collaboration between choreographer Mark Foehringer, Utterback, Dr. Glowacki, and Michael St. Clair of Stanford's Theater and Performance Studies. The innovative performance, developed around a Claude Debussy score, uses the live video tracking abilities of the dS system to re-imagine the Impressionist project of depicting the feeling of passing time.
To RSVP for the Lunch & Learn, please email Liz Celeste at lizceleste [at] stanford.edu (lizceleste[at]stanford[dot]edu).
Visit the danceroom Spectoscopy exhibition page to learn more about it!