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School of Arts and Department of Computing

Corporeal Computing

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Monday September 2, Tuesday September 3, Wednesday September 4,  2013

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From the program:

We are delighted to welcome all participants to the Corporeal Computing 
conference, co-hosted by the School of Arts and the Computing Department, 
University of Surrey.
Increasingly, human-computer systems involve the capture and interpreting of 
motion in high-level 3+D environments, for more embodied interfacing across a 
number of social and cultural settings. This digitized form of ‘physical thinking’ 
bears upon a number of emergent narratives and discourses relating to the 
performance and performativity of body-machine systems. This conference 
brings together computer scientists, cultural theorists, digital media artists 
and artists in the movement arts (dance, theatre and digital music), to discuss 
the use of motion responsive and motion-calculative systems in digital live 
performance. 
We have put together an exciting programme of papers, demonstrations, 
forums, and performances, with world-leading practitioners and scholars. The 
event is a truly international gathering, with participants from over fifteen 
countries.

Organisers:
Nicolas Salazar Sutil, School of Arts, University of Surrey
Paul Krause, Department of Computing, University of Surrey

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Conference Schedule

Day 1

Monday September 2,

08.30 - 09.30 Registration and Coffee

09:30 - 09:40 Welcome: Phil Powrie (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences)

09:40 -10:40 Keynote Presentation by Paul Kaiser (OpenEndedGroup)

10:40 - 11:40 Archaeologies of Digital Performance

Oskar Schlemmer’s programmatic gesture – Sally Jane Norman (University of Sussex)

CODA, a stereoscopic computer choreography after Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring— Martine Epoque and

Denis Poulin (LarTech, Canada)

11:40 -12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 -13:00 Corporealities and Materialities I Placing the body in virtual reality – Sita Popat

(University of Leeds)

Blended bodies and notions of materiality in live-digital dancing – Kerry Francksen (de Montfort

University)

13:00 -14:00 Lunch

14:00 -15:00 Keynote Presentation by Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch)

15:00 - 16:30 Tools and Technologies I

I-CARE-US – Fernando Nabais (YDreams, Lisbon)

The TKB project: creative technologies for the multimodal annotation of performance composition

and documentation – Stephan Jürgens (New University of Lisbon)

Kinect: organising movement between measuring, calculating and perceiving – Irina Kaldrack

(University of Basel)

16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 - 18:00 Round Table Discussion Mark Coniglio, Paul Kaiser, Kirk Woolford, Tom Calvert (with

Sita Popat)

18:00 - 19:30 BBQ Dinner (venue depending on weather, tbc)

19:30 - 21:00 Live Art Installations/ Performances

Electrode, by Daniel Ploeger (UK), Dance Studio

Moments in Place, by Kirk Woolford (UK/US), various locations

NEX, by Cia Proyecto Uno (Spain), Studio 3

After Ghostcatching, by OpenEndedGroup (Paul Kaiser, US), Studio 2

21:00 Reception

Day 2

Tuesday September 3

09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Presentation by Tom Calvert (Credo Interactive)

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:40 Corporealities and Materialities II

Transgressing the sonified body – Daniel Ploeger (Brunel University)

Hacking the body – Camille Baker (Brunel University) and Kate Sicchio (University of Lancaster)

11:40 - 12:30 Gesture and Haptics

Conversation with phones – James Charlton (Auckland University of Technology)

Haptics and particles (demo) –Doros Polydorou (Cyprus University of Technology) and Tychonas

Michailides (Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University)

12:30 -13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote Presentation by Kirk Woolford

14:30 - 15:30 Data, Visualisation, Motion

Modulation in interactive video installation – Nic Sandiland (Middlesex University)

MoveEngine – movement values visualized – Henner Drewes (Folkwang University of the Arts,

Germany)

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 -16:30 Performance / Lecture Perfect Paul: on freedom of facial expression – Arthur Elsenaar

(Royal Academy of Art- Royal Conservatoire, Netherlands)

16:30 - 17:30 Forum 1 Cyborgs and Ghosts Laura Karreman (Ghent University, Belgium) and Seok Jin

Han (University of Surrey) present and chair

17:30 -19:00 BBQ Dinner (venue depending on weather, tbc)

19:00 - 21:00 Screendance session (Main Theatre)

Structured Light (Short) by Sebastian Melo (Chile)

CODA by Martine Epoque and Denis Poulin (Canada)

Installations:

All day: After Ghostcatching, by OpenEndedGroup (Paul Kaiser, US), Studio 2

21:00 Reception

Day 3

Wednesday September 4,

08:30 - 10:30 Current Approaches in Digital Laban Studies

Panel 1 (8:30)

Intentional and behavioral movement in virtual worlds: A Laban Movement Analysis approach –

Leslie Bishko (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada)

How to make human animation more alive - Viewing human animation through the lens of Laban

Movement Analysis – Sandra Hooghwinkel (Moving Technology, Netherlands)

Panel 2 (9:30)

Movement archaeologies: digging for meaning in new landscapes of movement data – Thecla

Schiphorst (Simon Fraser University), Karen Bradley and Karen Studd (Laban/Bartenieff Institute of

Movement Studies)

Can affective movement be quantified? A Laban-based approach – Sarah Jane Burton, (Sheridan

College, Canada) Ali-Akbar Samadani, Rob Gorbet, Dana Kulic (University of Waterloo, Canada)

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:00 Corporealities And Materialities III

Exploring the capacity of embodied, spontaneous interfaces to support creativity – Michael Neff

(University of California-Davis)

Behavioural coding and segmentation: Signifying practice and value production in technology –

Wangi Lee (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College)

12:00 -13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Forum 2: Digital Feminism Margaret Jean Westby (Concordia University, Canada) and

Legacy Russell (Goldsmiths College) present and chair

14:00 - 14:15 Coffee Break

14:15 - 15:15 Tools And Technologies II

Materialising Acts: Exploring movement data for digital interaction through the Sync application –

Lise Amy Hansen (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway)

Sensor based motion capture in balletic dance – Corinna Spieth-Hoelzl (Dance Institut, Munich)

16:00 -17:15 Performance (+ Q & A’s with artists):

REACH by Mindbeat 2, Dance Studio

17:15 Coffee

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