Dance && Code

Projects for Creative Coding & Modern Dance

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For when progress feels elusive… Sometimes it feels like I spend hours and hours and hours programming, usually trying to do something that seems like it should take two minutes, only to have it all blow up in my face.

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Dance Loops, Alpha Release @ UCUR

Dance Loops, Alpha Release @ UCUR

In the software world, the “alpha release” is the “not-quite-ready-for-primetime” version. It is usually circulated internally so the bugs can be worked out, although there are occasionally public alpha releases by very daring (or foolish) companies. I’m not totally sure which of the two camps we fall into, but here is an extremely non-professional video – we like to call it the “bootleg…

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Dance Loops, Golden Master @ NCUR

Dance Loops, Golden Master @ NCUR

The National Conference on Undergraduate Education (NCUR) is, as its name suggests, the country’s premiere outlet for scholarly and creative work by undergraduates. UVU dance student Molly Buonforte, who participated at the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR), and I were able to make the trip to the University of Kentuckyto present a reworked version of Dance Loops. Following the…

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Dance Loops, Open Beta @ SoTE After learning a little more about what to do and what NOT to do with your first rendition of Dance Loops (i.e., the “

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Dance Loops Accepted at ISEA2014!

Dance Loops Accepted at ISEA2014!

Wonder of Wonder, Miracle of Miracles! Dance Loops was accepted for ISEA2014! That is, the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art, which meets in Dubai in November of 2014. (I wrote about this application in an earlier post.)

In fact, it was accepted THREE TIMES. The first was the faculty piece, which we are calling “Debauched Kinesthesia: The Proprioceptive Remix.” As I mentioned…

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Dance Loops, Alpha Release @ UCUR

Dance Loops, Alpha Release @ UCUR

In the software world, the “alpha release” is the “not-quite-ready-for-primetime” version. It is usually circulated internally so the bugs can be worked out, although there are occasionally public alpha releases by very daring (or foolish) companies. I’m not totally sure which of the two camps we fall into, but here is an extremely non-professional video – we like to call it the “bootleg…

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Visualization of dance and visualization via dance

[The above image is from the post “Math Dances: Imitating Data Visualization Techniques through…

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