Hellen Sky is a creative director of Company in Space. Her practice has evolved through performance and image making extended through new technologies. In CIS projects she collaborates with others to develop scores, and systems for integrating multiple media and technologies into a total choreography for performative events, linking virtual physical terrains to the general public. Previous work - Escape Velocity (live and telematic movement driven performance), Data Dancing (London), Downloading Downunder (Amsterdam), SIGGRAPH (Florida), MDDF2 (Monaco), Digital Now (Hong Kong) - posed the question: Where do flesh, fragile bone, senses and perceptions fit into the new geographies of the late twentieth century? CO 3, performed in Interact Asia Pacific Multi Media Festival (Melbourne), Future Physical ICA (London), and Arnolfini (Bristol), explored concepts of presence, and identity within virtual reality. The Light Room new media movement opera, premiered at MIFA 01 & 02 (Melbourne Museum), engaged with physical and virtual architectural worlds as metaphor for life bridging the cusp of 20th – 21st centuries. New work in development for 2004/5 – The Darker Edge of Night – again asks questions of time and origin, perceived from the emergent new horizons of mid 21st Century. Virtual networks create new grids of power altering concepts of body, space and contact between humans and their coded others. The work integrates many media, including a poetic synthesis of astrological data sets and outcomes of research from CIS' collaboration with The Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University. |
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| John McCormick is co-artistic director of Company in Space. He is a choreographer and electronic artist whose work with CIS ranges from designing real time computer interactive systems, real time vision orchestration, new applications of telecommunications systems to deliver interactive art, as well as concept collaboration on direction image, choreography and technology interface. John is currently an artist-in-residence at RMIT?s Interactive Information Institute, researching live interactive performance over the internet and realtime virtual theatre environments. With CIS he has performed in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and has presented dual site telematic performances at Data Dancing (London), Downloading Downunder (Amsterdam), SIGGRAPH (Florida), MDDF2 (Monaco), Digital Now (Hong Kong). Currently his work centers around motion capture and allied means of enabling performers to engage in shared computer-enhanced spaces. With Hellen Sky, he has taught at the Guang Zhou Modern Dance Company, Beijing Dance Academy and has been invited to participate in several international dance and technology workshops including the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 2000 and e-phos TRANSDANCE Athens 2001- and MDDF2 ( Monaco). |
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