WebChoreographies.md
Radical Networks 2019 Proposal
Format: [Performance]
Name: [Joana Chicau]
Pronouns: [she]
Location: [Holland/Europe]
Email: [web@joanachicau.com]
Twitter: [@BChicau]
Repo: [https://github.com/JoBCB]
Url(s): [http://www.joanachicau.com/]
Consent to being photographed?: [Yes]
Consent to being on the livestream?: [Yes]
Speaker Bio and Profile Picture
Joana Chicau [PT/NL] is a graphic designer, coder, researcher — with a background in dance. In her practice she researches the intersection of the body with the constructed, designed, programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. She has been actively participating and organizing events with performances involving multi-location collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, open discussions on gender equality and activism. More info: http://joanachicau.com/joana_chicau_cv.pdf
[What communities do you identify yourself as being a part of? Why is this important in the work you do?]
She is a member of Varia: Center for Everyday Technology (http://varia.zone/en/) — where we experiment with tools for building physical and digital infrastructures of affinity in a collective way. We regularly organise ad-hoc public moments among different configurations.
And she is a co-founder of Netherlands Coding Live (https://netherlands-coding-live.github.io/) a pop-up ‘phygital’ (aka physical & digital) presence based in The Netherlands for engaging with Live Coding through practice, experimentation, openness, discussion and performance.
[Link to bio picture]
https://github.com/JoBCB/choreo-graphic_code-assemblage-1-/blob/master/joanachicau.png
Description
Keyconcepts: algorithmic performance, web interfaces, networked infrastructures, computer programming, digital cultures, hybrid languages, data choreography, embodied cognition, movement studies, notation systems (scores & scripts);
The web can be seen as a choreographic agglomerate which defines ways of moving collectively and individually, through fluid and complex landscapes of information displays, networked, multimedia environments.
< A WebPage in Three Acts > is an assemblage of live coded visual experiments performed in the web browser. The computer screen is divided in two stages: the ‘frontstage’, the interface a user normally accesses and the ‘backstage’ or the web console in which programming languages can be run. In the web console Joana Chicau calls, juxtaposes and manipulates different web programming actions which are named after choreographic concepts. The page originally filled with information, will be deconstructed, with elements being set in motion, displaying a varied composition of graphic elements in the screen. The performance structure is divided in three acts, and comprehends physical movement. Online environments - with all of its properties, designed intentions and ideologies - become an experimental stage for bringing into shared consciousness the physicality of code & the corporeality of the machine.
This performance in part of an on going research on how design and web based computational systems can be used to construct new scenarios, imaginaries and hypothesis guided by choreographic concepts. Privileging open source tools and investigation through feminist lens, Joana Chicau combines real-time algorithmic composition & movement studies to rethink the vocabularies, protocols, modes of participation and different conditions for affective interfacing of bodies and technologies.
Research/project website: https://jobcb.github.io/
Length:
Performance: 20 minutes [+ 10min for audience's questions]
Performance requirements
1 projector; 1 screen/ wall to project; HDMI cable to connect projector to computer; 1 microphone on stand (with tripod) connected to amplifier/loudspeakers for voice amplification; Access to Wi-fi (stable connection);
The performance setting is rather informal: audience may seat around performer in the floor or in chairs (preferably not far from the projection), in a room which can be made dark.
If possible a photo or video camera and tripod to document the piece.
Additional Info / Links / References
A recent publication: https://monoskop.org/images/7/70/Choreo-graphic-hypothesis-web-joana-chicau.pdf
Video documentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isqx0dDqVzo https://www.kondoo.tv/ccc/35c3-a-webpage-in-three-acts