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Dance Exploration in Mixed Realities? Investigating Second Life as a virtual platform for duality within identity.

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Investigating notions of identity in Contact Improvisation Dance practice

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Purchase in Encounters through or despite Indeterminacy?

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Do you want this account to represent:: individual human (me), organization of humans (us) many of you

If you are representing an organization, what kind of organization? you may check more than one answer.: Company, Presenter, Producer, Education, Media

First Name (Required: even if you are reprenting an organization you must use your name): Michael Charles John Baker

About Me (human/individual)/interests, work..short bio/ THis is the most important. It is the only way to know that you are not a SPAMBOT!Be generous!: I live and work in Nelson, NZ Aotearoa. I am currrently a senior lecturer at NMIT in Nelson, on the Arts and Media Degree, tutoring in site-based and site-specific installation/performance/new media, art and design, 3D studies

I am in my final thesis year of my AUT Masters in Art and Design majoring in Dance and Video. Please go to my blogsite below for my research/practice

Personal Website:: http://hoststranger.blogspot.com

Organization Website:: http://hoststranger.blogspot.com

English is the main language of this site, but let us know which language you would use in this network besides English:: Kinesthetic/Visual/Somatic modes

Which other:: Traditional 2D, 3D, Installation media, Text

How did you learn about dance-tech.net?: I was referred by a friend, Isabel Valverde

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SDHS 2009 Conference at Stanford University, California, USA 19 - 22 June

Posted on June 22, 2009 at 3:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes

The 2009 conference of SDHS (Society of Dance History Scholars) Topographies, Site, Bodies, Technologies was held at Stanford University, California, USA this year.

I presented two papers: The first was an individual paper presentation delivered from my Second Life Wellington Railway Station - In the Company of Strangers - Negotiating the parameters of Indeterminacy; a study of the Roaming Body and Departure in Urban Spaces.

The second paper was entitled: The Human… Continue

Indeterminacy and the Roaming Body

Posted on February 14, 2009 at 11:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

At the end of 2008 I had the abstract for the following paper accepted for presentation at the intercreate.orgSCANZ Symposium, New Plymouth, NZ Aotearoa 7-8 February 2009.

SCANZ is now an annual fixture on the international map of practitioners in the Arts, Sciences and Literature, so I presented this paper to a diverse audience from Holland, Brazil, France, Germany, the UK, the USA, Australia and NZ Aotearoa. My presentation was comprised of my reading to the symposium audience at… Continue

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At 9:24pm on August 23, 2009, Daniel Alexander Belton said…: Hi Mike, yes I remember you well. Thank you for your comments, and congratulations on the MA. Lovely to be in touch. Best

Daniel