Ready, Set, Go! Stopping Time in Its Corporate TracksAnna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
The flash mob mentality and our perception of time.
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Ready, Set, Go! Stopping Time in Its Corporate Tracks
Revisitations and Constant Auditions: The Politics of Placing People
How do we reward and protect creative labor while we insist on stripping it from the bodies that produce it?
Read more‘Screenifying’ Choreography: The New Parameters of Social Interaction as Envisioned by Bill T Jones’ Blind Date
The screen’s ubiquitous presence in the modern world has transformed our lives from how we interact to the way we move. In this transformation have we all become sitting ducks?
Read moreYouTube, Dance and Reform: The Body Caught in the Act
How has YouTube transformed the study of choreography and the way we think about movement?
Not Yo’ Momma’s Cyborg: Transformers Meet More Than Your Eye
by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Fully loaded, tricked out, ripped and raring for a fight, the movie Transformers (2007) provides an opportunity for processing human gesture across the mechanized object.
Can it be argued that those “robots in disguise” ™ are not Haraway’s cyborgs?
Dancing in the Distraction Factory: CGI, Captured Feet, and Box Office Magic
by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Dancing is a central component to today’s CGI blockbusters. What happens in the transformation from the physical to the digital? What effects has dance had on animation and animation on dance? And how does dancing in the digital realm shape our perception of reality?