Marlon Barrios Solano/dance-tech.TV

 

Know-how: consulting, lectures, workshops and special projects!

My name is Marlon Barrios Solano, I am an a movement and new media artist, experimental online producer, researcher, lecturer and consultant on collaborative creativity, technologies and methodologies.

I am the creator and producer of dance-techTV, dance-tech.net (this social networking site),  and several online series of interviews. I  am also the curator of Choreography or ELSE: Contemporary Experiments on the Performance of Motion for dance-tech.tv.

 I am based in New York  and Amsterdam, but I travel a lot consulting, teaching and covering art festivals.

key words:

embodied cognition, dancetech, collaboration, social media, open cultures, open source, open education, access, movement, new media, open source, activism, freedom of expressions, peace, green technologies and sustainability, social good, alternative media

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Inquiries or just to say hello email me at: dancetechtv@me.com

Projects and instances:

• dance-tech.net: this online community.
• dance-tech.tv: an online curated video channel dedicated to the performance of movement, creative processes, new media and interdisciplinary arts.
• dance-tech.TVLIVE: a network of online channels dedicated to enable LIVE transmission arts related content. In collaborations with international organizations as co-producers.
• Choreography or ELSE: Contemporary Experiments on the Performance of Motion: an online interactive collection of complete experimental choreography works on dance-tech.tv.
• Screendance@dance-tech.tv (to be launched on in February 15th 2012)
• Documentaries@dance-tech.tv ( to be launched February 1st 2012)
• embedded_vlogger: social media production from within venues, conferences and Festivals: combining "embedded journalism" with digital storytelling, social media technologies and methods, I travels the world visiting festivals and producing news flows, interviews and views  from the "inside" of festivals and art hub using all the dance-tech platforms and meta-networks.
• grid_lab: social media production and internet presence in art festivals and events.  It is a mobile open studio/workshop facilitated and deployed within festivals to produce and distribute networked digital content and news. A workshop is facilitated  and   the participants become the sociale media production team to cover and augment the social media presence of the host. The students lear how to leverage the viral power of social media platforms and the new Internet (Web 2.0) augmenting presence, developing audiences and facilitating the generation and distribution of knowledge. The grid_lab benefits from an engaged international community of more than 5000 members including individual artists and organizations.
• The dance-tech DAILY:  a/n (almost) daily email with  a selection of dance-tech.net and dance-tech.tv content (you can opt to not receive it in the settings of you account)
• meta_creation lab: Inter-actors, attractors and the aesthetics of complexity (workshop/course/open lab) a facilitated exploration on non-linear dramaturgies, interfacing movement art practices, digital arts, computational networks and social systems oriented to movement and interdisciplinary artists (music, new media, theater, etc.)
• On-line discussions seminars: books, movies, relevant issues
• Know-how: consulting, lectures, workshops and special projects.

My bio (in third person):

Marlon Barrios Solano (Venezuela/USA) works as an independent movement/new media artist, researcher, on-line producer/curator, vlogger, consultant and  educator.

With a hybrid background in movement and new media arts, organizational development, and cognitive science, he researches and create platforms for the development of open and sustainable models of knowledge production and distribution among trans-local artistic communities communities and organizational contexts.

He is the creator/producer/curator of dance-techTV, a collaborative internet video channel dedicated to innovation and experimental performing arts and its social network dance-tech.net.

Marlon is a research associate at DanceDigitalUKand a researcher in residency at CARD Centre for Applied Research in Dance at the University of Bedforshire (UK) and  ICKAmsterdam(Holland).

He is a guest lecturer for the Masters on Performance Practices and Visual Culture for the Universidad de Alcala (Spain) and the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT) for 2012.

His research  and production is focused on:

• Contemporary choreographic practices, real time composition and new media
• Emergent dramaturgies and models in relation with networked technologies and performances
• Open culture/knowledge practices, strategieas and tactics  for artists and cultural managers
• networked/collaborative creativity and interactive tools for knowledge production, generation and distribution
• Embodied and situated cognition and the performance of motion  and dance
• On line curatorial approaches and production for the performance of movement in the new internet

Marlon has also worked for the South American Network of Dance as a consultant and instructor on collaborative technologies and the new internet.

As a professional dancer in New York City, he performed nationally and internationally with Susan Marshal and Dancers (1997-2000), Lynn Shapiro Dance Company (1995-1998), and with the choreographers Merian Soto, Dean Moos, Bill Young, among others. He also performed with the musicians John Zorn, Philip Glass and Eric Friedlander.

Under Unstablelandscape (2003-07), he performed and researched improvisational performances within digital real-time environments performing in the US and Europe.

He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology 2004 (real-time digital technology, performance of improvisation and embodied cognition) from The Ohio State University, USA.

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