Embodied Synthesizer: An xR Dance Workshop

with:
  Paula Strunden

#virtual #dance #performance

This week-long interdisciplinary workshop merges dance and virtual technologies to explore extended reality (xR). Drawing from Paula Strunden's PhD thesis on ‘Embodied Virtuality’ and her xR dance performance ‘Rhetorical Bodies,’ participants will work in groups to create a collective ‘Embodied Synthesizer.’ This synthesizer combines physical movements with auditory sounds in real-time. Using VR headsets, object trackers, and immersive software like Gravity Sketch and Manus Polygon, participants will engage in free movement, dance, and full-body VR drawing and tracking exercises. The workshop aims to foster experiences of hybrid intimacy and expanded consciousness. It will include introspection exercises, guided discussions, and culminate in an xR dance performance, open to all Summer School participants.


Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary xR artist. She studied architecture in Vienna, Paris and London and worked at Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. She is currently pursuing her artistic dissertation as part of the European research network TACK at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and, as founder of xR Atlas, is committed to an alternative historiography of virtual technologies.  

https://paulastrunden.com

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